Journal Articles

Role of conspecifics and personal experience on behavioral avoidance of contaminated flowers by bumblebees. 

Kinyungu T. N., Muthomi J. W., Subramanian S., Miano D. W., Olubayo F.M. and Maobe M. A. (2019) Role of maize residues in transmission of maize chlorotic mottle virus and effect on yield. International Journal of Biosciences 14, 338–349. https://innspub.net/ijb/role-maizeresidues-transmission-maize-chlorotic-....

Roth J. M., Sawa P., Omweri G., Makio N., Osoti V., de Jong M.D., Schallig H.D.F.H. and Mens P.F. (2018) Molecular detection of residual parasitemia after pyronaridine–artesunate or artemether–lumefantrine treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Kenyan children. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 99, 970–977.

Siozios S., Moran J., Chege M., Hurst G.D.D. and Paredes J.C. (2019) Complete reference genome assembly for Commensalibacter sp. strain AMU001, an acetic acid bacterium isolated from the gut of honey bees. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8, e01459-01418. https://doi.org/01410.01128/MRA.01459-01418.

Sisay B., Tadele T., Wakgari M.., Ayalew G. and Mendesil E. (2019) The efficacy of selected synthetic insecticides and botanicals against fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, in maize. Insects 10, 45. doi:10.3390/insects10020045.

Ntiri E.S., Calatayud P.-A., Van den Berg J. and Le Ru B.P. (2019) Spatio-temporal interactions between maize lepidopteran stemborer communities and possible implications from the recent invasion of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in sub-Saharan Africa. Environmental Entomology, doi: 10.1093/ee/nvz1024.

Ssepuuya G., Tanga C.M., Yekko I., Ndagire C.T., Fiaboe K.K.M., Karungi J. and Nakimbugwe D. (2018) Suitability of egg hatching conditions and commonly available food plants for rearing the long-horned grasshopper Ruspolia differens Serville (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 4, 253–261.

Straub P., Tanga C.M., Osuga I., Windisch W. and Subramanian S. (2019) Experimental feeding studies with crickets and locusts on the use of feed mixtures composed of storable feed materials commonly used in livestock production. Animal Nutrition 255, 114215.

Tanga C., Mohamed S.A., Prem G., Salifu D. and Ekesi S. (2018) Cross-correlation analysis of invasive mango mealybug and its associated natural enemies in relation to meteorological factors:implications for biological control. Biocontrol Science and Technology, doi: 10.1080/09583157.09582018.01562037.

Teshome K., Mendesil E., Enchalew B., Kassie M. and Tefera T. (2019) Effect of the push–pull cropping system on maize yield, stem borer infestation and farmers’ perception. Agronomy 9, 452. https://doi.org/410.3390/agronomy9080452. 

Shumo M., Osuga  I.M., Khamis F.M., Tanga C.M., Fiaboe K.K.M., Subramanian S., Ekesi S., van Huis A. and Borgemeister C. (2019) The nutritive value of black soldier fly larvae reared on common organic waste streams in Kenya. Scientific Reports 9, 10110.  https://doi.org/10110.11038/s4159810019-46603-z.

Bishop R.P., Odongo D.O., Dolan T.T., Dolan R.B., Skilton R.A. and Sayer P.D. (2019) Theileriosis In mountain bongo repatriated to Kenya: A clinical and molecular investigation. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 50, 342–349. https://doi.org/310.1638/2018-0110.

Wamiti L.G., Khamis F.M., Abd-alla A.M.M., Ombura F.L.O., Akutse K.S., Subramanian S., Odiwuor S.O., Ochieng S.J., Ekesi S. and Maniania N.K. (2018) Metarhizium anisopliae infection reduces Trypanosoma congolense reproduction in Glossina fuscipes fuscipes and its ability to acquire or transmit the parasite. BMC Microbiology 18(Suppl 1), 142.

Olaide O.Y., Tchouassi D.P., Yusuf A.A., Pirk C.W.W., Masiga D.K., Saini R.K. and Torto B. (2019) Zebra skin odor repels the savannah tsetse fly, Glossina pallidipes (Diptera:Glossinidae). PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(6), e0007460. https://doi.org/0007410.0001371/journal.pntd.0007460.

Agbodzavu K.M., Lagat Z.O., Gikungu M., Rwomushana I., Ekesi S. and Fiaboe K.K.M. (2018)

Performance of the newly identified endoparasitoid Cotesia icipe Fernandez‐Triana & Fiaboe on

Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval). Journal of Applied Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jen.12514.