Predicting the current and future potential distributions of lymphatic filariasis in Africa using maximum entropy ecological niche modelling.

Modelling the spatial distributions of human parasite species is crucial to understanding the environmental determinants of infection as well as for guiding the planning of control programmes.Here, we use ecological niche modelling to map the current potential distribution of the macroparasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis (LF), in Africa, and to

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An Upper Cretaceous ichthyodectiform fish from Kyushu, Japan

Ichthyodectiform fishes are an exclusively extinct basal teleost clade, with a temporal range from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) to Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).The fish fossils here described were found from Maeshima islet in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan in an outcrop of the Hinoshima Formation of the Lower Subgroup of the Himenoura Group.Althoug

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