Background The Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera, is among the most
promising species to unravel the suites of genes underling the density-dependent shift from shy …

Endogenous plant pararetroviruses (EPRVs) are viral sequences of the family Caulimoviridae
integrated into the nuclear genome of numerous plant species. The ability of some …

Thirty-five unique partial sugarcane bacilliform virus (SCBV) sequences extending over
529bp were identified in sugarcane samples from Guadeloupe diagnosed by Immunocapture-…

Cassava Bacterial Blight (CBB) is a destructive disease widely distributed in the different areas
where this crop is grown. Populations studies have been performed at local and national …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS), through the implementation of metagenomic protocols,
has led to the discovery of thousands of new viruses in the last decade. Nevertheless, these …

Most heat shock proteins (Hsps) function as molecular chaperones that help organisms to
cope with stress. Although the best empirical evidence is related to heat shock, there is …

Dating population divergence within species from molecular data and relating such dating
to climatic and biogeographic changes is not trivial. Yet it can help formulating evolutionary …

In recent years, Brown spot disease of rice (BSR) has been observed on leaves and seeds
of rice in all rice-growing areas of Burkina Faso. Bipolaris oryzae and Exserohilum rostratum …

Unravelling variation among taxonomic orders regarding the rate of evolution in microsatellites
is crucial for evolutionary biology and population genetics research. The mean mutation …

Between plagues, the solitarious desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is generally thought
to exist as small populations, which are particularly prone to extinction events in arid regions …