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List of works by Laura Marie Boykin

A metagenomic study of DNA viruses from samples of local varieties of common bean in Kenya

scholarly article by James M Wainaina et al published 2019 in PeerJ

A practical guide to identifying members of the Bemisia tabaci species complex: and other morphologically identical species

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Analyses of Twelve New Whole Genome Sequences of Cassava Brown Streak Viruses and Ugandan Cassava Brown Streak Viruses from East Africa: Diversity, Supercomputing and Evidence for Further Speciation

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Analyses of seven new whole genome sequences of cassava brown streak viruses in Mozambique reveals two distinct clades: evidence for new species

scientific article published on 10 March 2019

Barcoding's next top model: an evaluation of nucleotide substitution models for specimen identification

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Bemisia tabaci nomenclature: lessons learned

scientific article published on 21 January 2014

Bemisia tabaci: a statement of species status

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Cassava Brown Streak Disease and Ugandan cassava brown streak virus Reported for the First Time in Zambia

scholarly article by Rabson M. Mulenga et al published July 2018 in Plant Disease

Cassava brown streak virus has a rapidly evolving genome: implications for virus speciation, variability, diagnosis and host resistance

scientific article (publication date: 3 November 2016)

Cassava whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in East African farming landscapes: a review of the factors determining abundance.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals genetic diversity in the endosymbiont Hamiltonella between native and exotic populations of Bemisia tabaci from Brazil

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Comparison of four species-delimitation methods applied to a DNA barcode data set of insect larvae for use in routine bioassessment

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Comparison of methods for rooting phylogenetic trees: a case study using Orcuttieae (Poaceae: Chloridoideae).

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Correction: Analyses of Twelve New Whole Genome Sequences of Cassava Brown Streak Viruses and Ugandan Cassava Brown Streak Viruses from East Africa: Diversity, Supercomputing and Evidence for Further Speciation

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Correction: The Complete Sequence of the Acacia ligulata Chloroplast Genome Reveals a Highly Divergent clpP1 Gene

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

DNA barcoding invasive insects: database roadblocks

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Developing conversed microsatellite markers and their implications in evolutionary analysis of the Bemisia tabaci complex

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Distribution and phylogenetics of whiteflies and their endosymbiont relationships after the Mediterranean species invasion in Brazil

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Evolutionary insights of and

scientific article published in 2019

First report of Cassava brown streak viruses on wild plant species in Mozambique

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Genetic Diversity of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Species Complex Across Malaysia

Genetic diversity and SNP's from the chloroplast coding regions of virus-infected cassava

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Genetic variation of Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Florida and the Caribbean using microsatellite DNA markers

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Genomic characterisation and evolutionary relationships of groundnut rosette virus from the western highlands of Kenya

scholarly article by James M. Wainaina et al published 9 August 2018 in Tropical Plant Pathology

Global genetic variation in the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae) and the endosymbiont Wolbachia: links between Iran and the USA detected.

scientific article published on 2 October 2013

Global phylogenetic relationships, population structure and gene flow estimation of Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Greenhouse whitefly).

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Global relationships of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) revealed using Bayesian analysis of mitochondrial COI DNA sequences

scientific article published on 16 May 2007

Improved DNA barcoding method for Bemisia tabaci and related Aleyrodidae: development of universal and Bemisia tabaci biotype-specific mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I polymerase chain reaction primers

scientific article published in April 2009

Integration of complete chloroplast genome sequences with small amplicon datasets improves phylogenetic resolution in Acacia.

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Is agriculture driving the diversification of the Bemisia tabaci species complex (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae)?: Dating, diversification and biogeographic evidence revealed

scientific article (publication date: 18 October 2013)

Leaf Anatomy of Orcuttieae (Poaceae: Chloridoideae): More Evidence of C4Photosynthesis without Kranz Anatomy

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Morphometric comparisons of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae) populations from Iran, USA and Pakistan

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

New invasion of Bemisia tabaci Mediterranean species in Brazil associated to ornamental plants

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Overview of worldwide diversity of Diaphorina citri Kuwayama mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 haplotypes: two Old World lineages and a New World invasion

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PPR-SMRs: ancient proteins with enigmatic functions

scientific article published on 28 August 2013

Phylogenetic Relationships among Whiteflies in the Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) Species Complex from Major Cassava Growing Areas in Kenya.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Phylogenetic and structural relationships of the PR5 gene family reveal an ancient multigene family conserved in plants and select animal taxa

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Phylogenomic relationship and evolutionary insights of sweet potato viruses from the western highlands of Kenya

scholarly article by James M Wainaina et al published 2018 in PeerJ

Piecing together an integrative taxonomic puzzle: microsatellite, wing shape and aedeagus length analyses ofBactrocera dorsalis s.l.(Diptera: Tephritidae) find no evidence of multiple lineages in a proposed contact zone along the Thai/Malay Peninsula

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Plastome-Wide Rearrangements and Gene Losses in Carnivorous Droseraceae

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Real time portable genome sequencing for global food security

Real‐time genomics for One Health

scientific article published in 2023

Species delimitation and global biosecurity

scientific article published on 8 December 2011

Synonymization of key pest species within theBactrocera dorsalisspecies complex (Diptera: Tephritidae): taxonomic changes based on a review of 20 years of integrative morphological, molecular, cytogenetic, behavioural and chemoecological data

scientific article published on 28 October 2014

The Complete Sequence of the Acacia ligulata Chloroplast Genome Reveals a Highly Divergent clpP1 Gene

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

The Los Alamos hepatitis C sequence database

scientific article published on 17 September 2004

The characteristics and expression profiles of the mitochondrial genome for the Mediterranean species of the Bemisia tabaci complex

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The first transcriptomes from field-collected individual whiteflies ( , Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae): a case study of the endosymbiont composition

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The first transcriptomes from field-collected individual whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci, Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

The value of a database in surveillance and vaccine selection

scholarly article by C Macken et al published October 2001 in International Congress Series

Towards a global barcode library for Lymantria (Lepidoptera: Lymantriinae) tussock moths of biosecurity concern

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Transmission specificities of plant viruses with the newly identified species of the Bemisia tabaci species complex

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Tree Lab: Portable genomics for Early Detection of Plant Viruses and Pests in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Twelve polymorphic microsatellite loci from the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, the vector for citrus greening disease, huanglongbing

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Unusual occurrence of a DAG motif in the Ipomovirus Cassava brown streak virus and implications for its vector transmission

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Updated mtCOI reference dataset for the Bemisia tabaci species complex

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Will the real Bemisia tabaci please stand up?

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