Search Results - "Boga, H I"
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Isolation and characterisation of bacteria from the haloalkaline Lake Elmenteita, Kenya
Published in Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions (01-07-2010)“…Culture-independent studies show that soda lake environments harbour diverse groups of bacteria and archaea. In this study different enrichment and isolation…”
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Bacterial Diversity in the Haloalkaline Lake Elmenteita, Kenya
Published in Current microbiology (01-01-2011)“…Lake Elmenteita is one of the alkaline saline lakes within the Kenyan Rift valley. The lake is situated on the floor of the Kenyan Rift Valley at 1,776 m above…”
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Open relationships in the castles of clay: high diversity and low host specificity of Termitomyces fungi associated with fungus-growing termites in Africa
Published in Insectes sociaux (01-08-2010)“…In the African and Asian tropics, termites of the subfamily Macrotermitinae play a major role in the decomposition of dead plant material. Their ecological…”
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Effects of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae on mortality, fecundity and egg fertility of Tetranychus evansi
Published in Journal of applied entomology (1986) (01-04-2006)“…The susceptibility of various developmental stages of Tetranychus evansi Baker & Pritchard (eggs, larvae, protonymphs, deutonymphs and adults) to the…”
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Attraction response of adult Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Rhipicephalus pulchellus (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks to extracts from Calpurnia aurea (Fabaceae)
Published in Veterinary parasitology (24-11-2010)“…Experiments were carried out to investigate the response of two tick species Rhipicephalus pulchellus Gerstaker, 1873 and Rhipicephalus appendiculatus Neumann,…”
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Hydrogen-Dependent Oxygen Reduction by Homoacetogenic Bacteria Isolated from Termite Guts
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-02-2003)“…Classifications Services AEM Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Molecular typing and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of enteropathogenic and shigatoxin producing Escherichia coli isolated from food handlers in three areas of Kenya
Published in East African medical journal (01-06-2009)“…To determine the aetiology, epidemiology and sanitary factors of carriage of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STEC)…”
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Sporomusa aerivorans sp. nov., an oxygen-reducing homoacetogenic bacterium from the gut of a soil-feeding termite
Published in International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology (01-09-2003)“…1 Lehrstuhl für Mikrobielle Ökologie, Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Fach M 654, 78457 Konstanz, Germany 2 Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Technische…”
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Rhodococcus opacus strain RW, a resorcinol-degrading bacterium from the gut of Macrotermes michaelseni
Published in African journal of biotechnology (01-07-2005)“…The population of resorcinol degrading bacteria in the intestinal tract of fungi-cultivating termite, Macrotermes michaelseni, was estimated to be 6.8 x 10…”
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Biogeographical survey of soil microbiomes across sub-Saharan Africa: structure, drivers, and predicted climate-driven changes
Published in Microbiome (23-08-2022)“…Top-soil microbiomes make a vital contribution to the Earth's ecology and harbor an extraordinarily high biodiversity. They are also key players in many…”
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Inadvertent presence of genetically modified elements in maize food products in Kenyan markets
Published in African journal of biotechnology (31-07-2013)“…Kenya has a biosafety law and has tested genetically modified (GM) maize under confinement and containment, but has neither released nor commercialized any GM…”
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Effects of Bacillus thuringiensis CRY1A(c) d-endotoxin on growth, nodulation and productivity of beans [Phaseolus vulgaris (L.) and siratro (Macroptilium atropurpureum DC.)]
Published in African journal of biotechnology (01-01-2010)“…The recent introduction of Bt maize and Bt cotton transgenic crops into Africa has raised concerns on their potential short and long-term ecological effects on…”
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Bacterial diversity in the intestinal tract of the fungus-cultivating termite Macrotermes michaelseni (Sjoestedt)
Published in African journal of biotechnology (19-03-2007)“…Microorganisms in the intestinal tracts of termites play a crucial role in the nutritional physiology of termites. The bacterial diversity in the…”
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Pathogenicity of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae to the tobacco spider mite Tetranychus evansi
Published in Experimental & applied acarology (01-05-2005)“…Seventeen isolates of Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin and two isolates of Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin were evaluated for their…”
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