Marine diatoms Coscinodiscus granii: They live in open waters such as the North Sea. Under the microscope, many single-celled diatoms can be seen, some of which are healthy, while others are infected by an egg fungus. The zoospores that the fungus forms for reproduction can be seen as small dots.

Publications of Franklin Nyabuga

Journal Article (6)

2012
Journal Article
Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W.W.: Coevolutionary fine-tuning: evidence for genetic tracking between a specialist wasp parasitoid and its aphid host in a dual metapopulation interaction. Bulletin of Entomological Research 102, pp. 149 - 155 (2012)
2011
Journal Article
Loxdale, H.; Schöfl, G.; Wiesner, K. R.; Nyabuga, F.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W. W.: Stay at home aphids: comparative spatial and seasonal metapopulation structure and dynamics of two specialist tansy aphid species studied using microsatellite markers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104 (4), pp. 838 - 865 (2011)
Journal Article
Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W.W.: Temporal genetic structuring of a specialist parasitoid, Lysiphlebus hirticornis Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) attacking a specialist aphid on tansy. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102 (4), pp. 737 - 749 (2011)
2010
Journal Article
Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H.D.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W. W.: Spatial population dynamics of a specialist aphid parasitoid, Lysiphlebus hirticornis Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae): evidence for philopatry and restricted dispersal. Heredity 105, pp. 433 - 442 (2010)
Journal Article
Nyabuga, F.; Outreman, Y.; Simon, J.-C.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W. W.: Effects of pea aphid secondary endosymbionts on aphid resistance and development of the aphid parasitoid Aphidius ervi: a correlative study. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 136 (3), pp. 243 - 253 (2010)
2009
Journal Article
Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H. D.; Sharbel, T. F.; Todd, M.; Weisser, W. W.: Microsatellite marker isolation and characterisation from Lysiphlebus hirticornis Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiidae), a specialist primary parasitoid attacking the specialist tansy aphid, Metopeurum fuscoviride Stroyan (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Molecular Ecology Resources 9 (3), pp. 931 - 934 (2009)

Thesis - PhD (1)

2010
Thesis - PhD
Nyabuga, F.: Parasitoids: metapopulation ecology and genetics, mating behaviour, and aphid host resistance. Dissertation, 161 pp., Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (2010)
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