School of Life and Environmental Sciences: Recent submissions
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Comprehensive Knowledge of Reservoir Hosts is Key to Mitigate Future Pandemics
Published 2020COVID-19 and other epidemics (such as SARS, Ebola and H1N1) are stark reminders that knowledge of animal behavior and ecosystem health are key to controlling the spread of zoonotic diseases early in their onset. However, ...Article -
Habitat fragmentation affects movement and space use of a specialist folivore, the koala
Published 2020Habitat fragmentation changes landscape patterns and can disrupt many important ecological processes. Movement allows individuals to find resource patches to maintain their fitness and habitat fragmentation can disrupt ...Open AccessArticle -
Compliance of the Gulf Cooperation Council airlines with COVID-19 mitigation measures
Published 2020The airlines in the Gulf Cooperation Council region are now recommencing operation. By browsing the airlines’ official websites, we collated information relating to their compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures. Most ...Article -
SARS-CoV-2 replicates in respiratory ex vivo organ cultures of domestic ruminant species
Published 2021There is strong evidence that severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, originated from an animal reservoir. However, the exact mechanisms ...Article -
Metatranscriptomic analysis of virus diversity in urban wild birds with paretic disease
Published 2020Wild birds are major natural reservoirs and potential dispersers of a variety of infectious diseases. As such, it is important to determine the diversity of viruses they carry and use this information to help understand ...Article