The explosive outbreaks of COVID-19 seen in congregate settings such as prisons and nursing homes, has highlighted a critical need for effective outbreak prevention and mitigation strategies for these settings.Here we consider how different types of control interventions impact the expected number of symptomatic infections due to outbreaks.Introduc
Domestication has altered a variety of traits within the Eurasian perch (Perca Intermediate fluviatilis), including phenotypic, physiological and behavioral traits of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis).Little is known, however, about the genetic changes between domesticated and wild Eurasian perch.In this study, we assembled a high-quality de novo
African trypanosomes, the causative agents of sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in animals, have a complex digenetic life cycle between a mammalian host and an insect vector, the blood-feeding tsetse fly.Although the importance of the insect vector to transmit the disease Numeric Keyboards was first realized over a century ago, many aspects of
The current understanding of UK Middle Jurassic pterosaur taxonomy is under-developed, leading to it being previously considered a time of low diversity.This is despite the presence of a productive but under-studied pterosaur-bearing horizon extending over parts of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.This unit, informally called the Stonesfield Slate,