News

Updates from the Armyworm Network
21
Apr

WHY DO WE SOMETIMES SEE “RANDOM” VIRAL OUTBREAKS? (Animal Ecology in Focus)

Armyworms are important caterpillar crop pests in Africa and, in the early 1990s, Ken was a young postdoc based in Kenya studying the migration of adult armyworm moths*. As part of this, he would visit lots of high-density armyworm ‘outbreaks’. What struck him most during these visits was that at some outbreaks all of the caterpillars appeared healthy and vigorous, whereas at others there were high levels of viral disease, and it was puzzling what was causing these apparently random epidemics of virus. A mere 30 years later, we think we have the answer, which we report in our latest paper Trans-generational viral transmission and immune priming are dose-dependent.

Read more here.

You are donating to : Greennature Foundation

How much would you like to donate?
$10 $20 $30
Would you like to make regular donations? I would like to make donation(s)
How many times would you like this to recur? (including this payment) *
Name *
Last Name *
Email *
Phone
Address
Additional Note
paypalstripe
Loading...