DEC 2022:
Our study “Negative Perception of Bats, Exacerbated by the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, May Hinder Bat Conservation in Northern Uganda“, let by Imran Ejotre, was published in the Special Issue Human-Bat Interactions and Sustainable Conservation in Sustainability.
Nov 2022:
Noel Gabiliga THIOMBIANO (PhD student, Joseph KI-ZERBO University, BURKINA FASO) will visit our lab in January 2023 to study parasites from bats from Burkina Faso. His research stay is supported by a Flexible Travel Fund from the Berlin Center for Global Engagement (BCGE) at the Berlin University Alliance (BUA).
06.09.2021:
Our paper about Hepatocystis and Nycteria parasites in Central Cameroon is online!
Tsague J, EM Bakwo-Fils, JP Atanga, NV Dongue, DW Mbeng, J Schaer, T. Tchuinkam. Hepatocystis and Nycteria (Haemosporida) parasite infections of bats in the Central Region of Cameroon. Parasitology. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182021001542
21.08.2020:
Our mini-review about Hepatocystis parasites is online!
Ejotre I, DM Reeder, K Matuschewski, J Schaer. Hepatocystis. Trends in Parasitology. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.07.015
11.03.2020:
Science Blog “Lab Down Under” released a blog about our work on Hepatocystis parasites in Australia: link to article
23.07.2019:
Our paper about Hepatocystis parasites in Australian Grey-headed flying foxes is accepted for publication and is online!
Schaer J, W Boardman, A McKeown, DA Westcott, K Matuschewski, M Power. Molecular investigation of Hepatocystis parasites in the Australian flying fox Pteropus poliocephalus across its distribution range. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 2019. 75, 103978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2019.103978
08.06.2019:
Our paper about Hepatocystis parasites of bats in Nigeria got accepted and is online!
Atama N, S Manu, S Ivande, SP Rosskopf, K Matuschewski, J Schaer. Survey of Hepatocystis parasites of fruit bats in the Amurum forest reserve, Nigeria, identifies first host record for Rousettus aegyptiacus. Parasitology. 2019. 146 (12), 1550-1554. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182019000817
30.11.2018:
Our paper about Nycteria and Polychromophilus parasites of bats in Gabon got accepted and is online!
Rosskopf SP, J Held, M Gmeiner, B Mordmüller, P Matsiégui, I Eckerle, N Weber, K Matuschewski, J Schaer. Nycteria and Polychromophilus parasite infections of bats in Central Gabon. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 2019. 68, 30-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2018.11.022
05.06.2018:
Our paper about the phylogeny of Hepatocystis parasites of Australian Pteropus species got accepted today and is online!
Phylogeny of Hepatocystis parasites of Australian flying foxes reveals distinct parasite clade. Schaer, J., McMichael, L., Gordon, A.N., Russell, D., Matuschewski, K., Perkins, S. L., Field, H., Power, M.; International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2018.06.001
23.05.2018:
AMNH press release:
Researchers Build Most Comprehensive Tree of Life for Malaria Parasites
Our paper about the polyphyly of Plasmodium is online in Royal Society Open Science! (23.05.2018)
The polyphyly of Plasmodium: comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of the malaria parasites (order Haemosporida) reveal widespread taxonomic conflict
Galen, S. C., Borner, J., Martinsen, E. S., Schaer, J., Austin, C. C., West, C. J., Perkins, S. L.; Royal Society Open Science 2018; 5:171780-171780. http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/5/171780
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