THE EFFECT OF HOST-PLANT PHYLOGENETIC ISOLATION ON SPECIES RICHNESS, COMPOSITION AND SPECIALIZATION OF INSECT HERBIVORES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN NATIVE AND EXOTIC HOSTS.

Understanding the drivers of plant-insect interactions is still a key issue in terrestrial ecology.Here, we used 30 well-defined plant-herbivore assemblages to assess the effects of host plant phylogenetic isolation and origin (native vs.exotic) on the species richness, composition and specialization of the insect herbivore fauna on co-occurring pl

Background: Study reproducibility is valuable for validating or refuting results.Provision of reproducibility indicators, such as materials, protocols, and raw data in a study improve its potential for reproduction.Efforts to reproduce noteworthy studies in the biomedical sciences have resulted in an overwhelming majority of them being found to be

Purpose: Region-of-interest (ROI) guidelines for online cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) radiotherapy may improve matching reproducibility and reduce inter-user variability of soft tissue sarcoma (STS) image guidance.The purpose of this work is to standardize ROI STS CBCT image registration guidelines using the plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle fo

BackgroundIn low-resource settings, it is challenging to ascertain the burden and causes of under-5 mortality as many deaths occur outside health facilities.We aimed to determine the causes of childhood deaths in rural Gambia using verbal autopsies (VA).MethodologyWe used WHO VA questionnaires to Awnings conduct VAs for deaths under-5 years of age

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