A5019077585- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Plant and animal studies
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
2020-2024
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
2021-2023
Kenya Medical Research Institute
2021
The sustainable utilization of black soldier fly (BSF) for recycling organic waste into nutrient-rich biomass, such as high-quality protein additive, is gaining momentum, and its microbiota thought to play important roles in these processes. Several studies have characterized the BSF gut different substrates locations; nonetheless, in-depth knowledge on community stability, consistency member associations, pathogenic microbe–microbe host–microbe interactions remains largely elusive. In this...
Gut microbiota plays important roles in many physiological processes of the host including digestion, protection, detoxification, and development immune responses. The honey bee (Apis mellifera) has emerged as model for gut-microbiota interaction studies due to its gut being highly conserved having a simple composition. A key gap this is understanding how microbiome differs regionally, sampling from tropics particular Africa. African region perspective native diversity bees, differences...
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are the most diverse group of corbiculate and important managed wild pollinators distributed in tropical subtropical regions globe. However, little is known about their associated beneficial microbes that play major roles host nutrition, detoxification, growth, activation immune responses, protection against pathogens sister groups, honeybees bumble bees. Here, we provide an initial characterization gut bacterial microbiota eight stingless bee species from...
Abstract Stingless bees are important pollinators and producers of honey used in folk medicine. We investigate the nectar sources for two Afrotropical stingless bee species, Hypotrigona araujoi Meliponula ferruginea . Pollen was extracted processed using next‐generation sequencing (NGS) methods, DNA metabarcoding. Results show that visited 32 plant genera. Wild plants were major bees' species. The diversity physical–chemical characteristics differed between suggesting they use comparable...
We report the draft whole-genome assembly of
<ns4:p><ns4:bold>Background:</ns4:bold> Nasopharyngeal samples contain higher quantities of bacterial and host nucleic acids relative to viruses; presenting challenges during virus metagenomics sequencing, which underpins agnostic sequencing protocols. We aimed develop a viral enrichment protocol for unbiased whole-genome respiratory syncytial (RSV) from nasopharyngeal using the Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) MinION platform.</ns4:p><ns4:p> <ns4:bold>Methods:</ns4:bold> assessed two...