Sentences with phrase «for tsetse»

On the road up we passed the government outpost for tsetse fly control, and it was not long before the tsetses had joined us in the cabin and were digging in.

Not exact matches

Started controlling the tsetse fly and opening it up for farming.

Lead author Paul - Yannick Bitome - Essono, from the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research, France, explains: «We thought the tsetse fly might be a good candidate in our study, as both sexes feed on blood, they are large and easily trapped, present in large numbers in Central Africa, and are opportunistic feeders with no strong preference for a particular host animal, so would feed on a large range of wildlife.»

In 2012, the World Health Organization set two public health goals for the control of Gambian sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by the tsetse fly.

Earlier research testing tsetse fly preferences for black, white, or striped landing surfaces found that the flies preferred black squares, but the testing didn't explain why.

Tsetse flies have an armament of salivary molecules that are essential for feeding on blood.

The tsetse fly is related to the fruit fly - a favoured subject of biologists for more than 100 years - but its genome is twice as large.

This study lays out a list of parts responsible for the key processes and opens new doors to design prevention strategies to reduce the number of deaths and illnesses associated with human African trypanosomiasis and other diseases spread by the tsetse fly.

«Though human African trypanosomiasis affects thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa, the absence of a genome - wide map of tsetse biology was a major hindrance for identifying vulnerabilities,» says Dr Serap Aksoy, co-senior author from the University of Yale.

Trypanosomes are parasites of the mammalian bloodstream that rely on biting flies — like the tsetse fly — for transmission.

We have undertaken an expressed sequence tag (EST) project on the adult tsetse midgut, the major organ system for establishment and early development of trypanosomes.

He meets the father (Falk) of his son - in - law - to - be, who tells hilarious dinner - table stories about the horrors of life in the Guatemalan bush country, where tsetse flies the size of eagles carry off small children; this fellow also mumbles something about working for the government, hoodwinking Kornpett into accompanying him on an ostensible mission against fiscal guerrillas hiding out on a Caribbean isle called Tijada.

Bright colours are to be avoided because they attract animals plus they can be distracting for safari goers looking to spot wildlife, black and dark blue can attract tsetse flies (usually an issue in mid-continental Africa between the Sahara and the Kalahari Deserts), and white is usually a no go because dirt shows very easily.

Yes, (part of) the current problems in pollution control, disease, starvation increases, and deaths (from malaria, dengue fever, tsetse fly, etc.) ARE due to the «climate scientists» making undue and improper predictions based on their chosen theory of CO2 = Bad For The World, We Must Control It.