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BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: C.S. Adamson, K. Chibale, R.J.M. Goss, M. Jaspars, D.J. Newman, and R.A. Dorrington. 2021. “Antiviral Drug Discovery: Preparing for the next Pandemic.” Chemical Society Reviews, 50(6): 3647-3655. Available: https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cs01118e [Accessed 06 July 2021].
BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY & CHEMISTRY: Maureen Bilinga Tendwa, Lorna Chebon-Bore, Kevin Lobb, Thommas Mutemi Musyoka, and Özlem Tastan Bishop. 2021. “Force Field Parameters for Fe2+4S2−4 Clusters of Dihydropyrimidine Dehydrogenase, the 5-Fluorouracil Cancer Drug Deactivation Protein: A Step towards In Silico Pharmacogenomics Studies.” Molecules, 26(10): 2929. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26102929 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY& ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Nasser Kasozi, Horst Kaiser, and Brendan Wilhelmi. 2021. “Effect of Bacillus Spp. on Lettuce Growth and Root Associated Bacterial Community in a Small-Scale Aquaponics System.” Agronomy, 11(5): 947. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11050947 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Chen Lior, Francesca Hodge, Evandro A. De-Souza, Dimitra Bourboulia, Stuart K. Calderwood, Della David, et al. 2021. “The 2021 FASEB Virtual Catalyst Conference on Extracellular and Organismal Proteostasis in Health and Disease, February 3-4, 2021.” The FASEB Journal, 35(6): e21631. Available: https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202100566 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
BOTANY: Tiffany Pillay, David Ward, Admore Mureva, and Michael Cramer. 2021. “Differential Effects of Nutrient Addition and Woody Plant Encroachment on Grassland Soil, Litter and Plant Dynamics across a Precipitation Gradient.” Pedobiologia, 85–86: 150726. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2021.150726 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CENTRE FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL: Pascal O. Aigbedion-Atalor, Itohan Idemudia, Medetissi Adom, Ethelyn E. Forchibe, Hospice Tossou, David D. Wilson, and Michael D. Day. 2021. “Marching across and beyond West Africa: First Record of the Stem-Galling Fly Cecidochares Connexa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Central Africa and the Implications for Biological Control of Chromolaena Odorata (Asteraceae).” PLOS ONE, 16(6): e0252770. Available: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252770 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Perry T. Kaye, Kola Augustus Oluwafemi, Siyolise Phunguphungu, Sinalo Gqunu, Michelle Isaacs, Heinrich C. Hoppe, and Rosalyn Klein. 2021. “Synthesis and Trypanocidal Activity of Substituted 2,4-Diarylquinoline Derivatives.” Arkivoc, 2021(8): S1-S21. Available: https://doi.org/10.24820/ark.5550190.p011.499 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CHEMISTRY & PHARMACY: C.I. Ezekiel, A.M. Bapolisi, R.B. Walker, and R.W.M. Krause. 2021. “Ultrasound-Triggered Release of 5-Fluorouracil from Soy Lecithin Echogenic Liposomes.” Pharmaceutics, 13(6): 821. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13060821 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CHEMISTRY: Oladotun P. Bolade, Kayode O. Adeniyi, Akan B. Williams, and Nsikak U. Benson. 2021. “Remediation and Optimization of Petroleum Hydrocarbons Degradation in Contaminated Water Using Alkaline Activated Persulphate.” Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(4): 105801. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.105801 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CHEMISTRY: Olamide Abiodun Daramola, Xavier Siwe-Noundou, Potlaki Foster Tseki, and Rui Werner Maçedo Krause. 2021. “Rapid Synthesis of Thiol-Co-Capped-CdTe/CdSe/ZnSe Core Shell-Shell Nanoparticles: Their Optical and Structural Morphology.” Nanomaterials, 11(5): 1193. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051193 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CHEMISTRY: Hongjie Feng, Zhikuan Zhou, Aviwe K. May, Jiaying Chen, John Mack, Tebello Nyokong, Lizhi Gai, and Hua Lu. 2021. “Disilane-Bridged Architectures with High Optical Transparency for Optical Limiting.” Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9(20): 6470–76. Available: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TC01488A [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CHEMISTRY: Thabile Lukhele, Denise Olivier, Marthe C. D. Fotsing, Charlotte M. Tata, Monisola I. Ikhile, Rui W. M. Krause, Sandy Van Vuuren, and Derek Tantoh Ndinteh. 2021. “Ethnobotanical Survey, Phytoconstituents and Antibacterial Investigation of Rapanea Melanophloeos (L.) Mez. Bark, Fruit and Leaf Extracts.” Physical Sciences Reviews, 000010151520200143. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2020-0143.
CHEMISTRY: Sivuyisiwe Mapukata, Pinar Sen, Olawale L. Osifeko, and Tebello Nyokong. 2021. “The Antibacterial and Antifungal Properties of Neutral, Octacationic and Hexadecacationic Zn Phthalocyanines When Conjugated to Silver Nanoparticles.” Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, 35: 102361. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2021.102361 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CHEMISTRY: Selvaraj Muthusamy, Long Zhao, Kanagaraj Rajalakshmi, Dongwei Zhu, Rodah Soy, John Mack, et al. 2021. “Turn-on Detection of Cysteine by a Donor-Acceptor Type Quinoline Fluorophore: Exploring the Sensing Strategy and Performance in Bioimaging.” Dyes and Pigments, 193: 109556. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2021.109556 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CHEMISTRY: Sebastian Otieno, Anabel E. Lanterna, John Mack, Solomon Derese, Edith K. Amuhaya, Tebello Nyokong, and Juan C. Scaiano. 2021. “Solar Driven Photocatalytic Activity of Porphyrin Sensitized TiO2: Experimental and Computational Studies.” Molecules, 26(11): 3131. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26113131 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
CHEMISTRY: A. O. Sobola, G. M. Watkins, R. O. Shaibu, S. Adewuyi, and S. A. Amolegbe. 2021. “Synthesis, Characterization and Antimicrobial Activity of Copper(II) Schiff Base Adducts of Some p-Substituted Aniline Schiff Bases.” Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia, 35(1): 33–42. Available: https://doi.org/10.4314/bcse.v35i1.3 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: A. Mabusela, C. M. Shackleton, and N. Gwedla. 2021. “The Distribution of Selected Woody Invasive Alien Species in Small Towns in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.” South African Journal of Botany, 141: 290–95. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2021.05.019 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Tafadzwa Shumba, Alta De Vos, Reinette Biggs, Karen J. Esler, and Hayley S. Clements. 2021. “The Influence of Biophysical and Socio-Economic Factors on the Effectiveness of Private Land Conservation Areas in Preventing Natural Land Cover Loss across South Africa.” Global Ecology and Conservation, 28: e01670. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01670 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Gladman Thondhlana, Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya, Alice McClure, Akosua Baah Kwarteng Amaka-Otchere, and Sheunesu Ruwanza. 2021. “Facilitating Urban Sustainability through Transdisciplinary (TD) Research: Lessons from Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.” Sustainability, 13(11): 6205. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116205 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
GEOLOGY & ALBANY MUSEUM: Robert W. Gess, and Cyrille Prestianni. 2021. “An Early Devonian Flora from the Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group) of South Africa.” Scientific Reports, 11(1): 11859. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90180-z [Accessed 06 July 2021].
GEOLOGY: Eugene G. Grosch, Janice L. Bishop, Christian Mielke, Alessandro Maturilli, and Jörn Helbert. 2021. “Early Archean Alteration Minerals in Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks of the Barberton Greenstone Belt as Petrological Analogs for Clay Mineralogy on Mars.” American Mineralogist, 106(5): 672–84. Available: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2021-7656.
ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE & SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY: Manda J. Kambikambi, Wilbert T. Kadye, and Albert Chakona. 2021. “Allopatric Differentiation in the Enteromius Anoplus Complex in South Africa, with the Revalidation of Enteromius Cernuus and Enteromius Oraniensis, and Description of a New Species, Enteromius Mandelai (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).” Journal of Fish Biology. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14780 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE & SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY: T.C. Madzivanzira, J. South, and O.L.F. Weyl. 2021. “Invasive Crayfish Outperform Potamonautid Crabs at Higher Temperatures.” Freshwater Biology, 66(5): 978–91. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13691 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE, SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: L. Mofu, T. Dalu, R. J. Wasserman, D. J. Woodford, D. Khosa, and O. L. F. Weyl. 2021. “Seasonal Variation and Drivers of Zooplankton, Macroinvertebrate and Littoral Fish Communities from Irrigation Ponds in a Semi-Arid Region in the Eastern Cape (South Africa).” African Journal of Aquatic Science. Available: https://doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2021.1924608 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: C.L.W. Jones, A. Nel, A. Adesola, T. Shipton, and H. Kaiser. 2021. “The Effect of Fishmeal Replacement with Terrestrial Protein Sources on Growth, Body Condition and Intestinal Microbiota of Juvenile Dusky Kob Argyrosomus Japonicus.” African Journal of Marine Science, 43(1): 45–52. Available: https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2020.1864472 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: R. Jak McCarroll, Tim Scott, Erin V. King, Gerd Masselink, Benjamin J. Ciotti, Anton Cloete, et al. 2021. “Modelling Regional and Local-Scale Larval Seeding Strategies for Abalone (H. Midae) Ranching in South Africa.” Aquaculture, 540: 736668. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.736668 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: G. Sarà, M.C. Mangano, M. Berlino, L. Corbari, M. Lucchese, G. Milisenda, et al. 2021. “The Synergistic Impacts of Anthropogenic Stressors and COVID-19 on Aquaculture: A Current Global Perspective.” Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2021.1876633 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Unique N. Keke, Francis O. Arimoro, Adesola V. Ayanwale, Oghenekaro N Odume, and Augustine O Edegbene. 2021. “Weak Relationships among Macroinvertebrates Beta Diversity (β), River Status, and Environmental Correlates in a Tropical Biodiversity Hotspot.” Ecological Indicators, 129: 107868. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107868 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Phindiwe Ntloko, Carolyn G. Palmer, Frank C. Akamagwuna, and Oghenekaro N. Odume. 2021. “Exploring Macroinvertebrates Ecological Preferences and Trait-Based Indicators of Suspended Fine Sediment Effects in the Tsitsa River and Its Tributaries, Eastern Cape, South Africa.” Water, 13(6): 798. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/w13060798 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: K M B Asad, J N Girard, M de Villiers, T Ansah-Narh, K Iheanetu, O Smirnov, et al. 2021. “Primary Beam Effects of Radio Astronomy Antennas – II. Modelling MeerKAT L-Band Beams.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(2): 2970–2983. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab104 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: M Bailes, C G Bassa, G Bernardi, S Buchner, M Burgay, M Caleb, et al. 2021. “Multifrequency Observations of SGR J1935+2154.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503(4): 5367–5384. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab749 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: R Cepeda-Arroita, S E Harper, C Dickinson, J A Rubiño-Martín, R T Génova-Santos, Angela C Taylor, et al. 2021. “Detection of Spectral Variations of Anomalous Microwave Emission with QUIJOTE and C-BASS.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503(2): 2927–43. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab583 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Prashant Kocherlakota, Luciano Rezzolla, Heino Falcke, Christian M. Fromm, Michael Kramer, et al. 2021. “Constraints on Black-Hole Charges with the 2017 EHT Observations of M87*.” Physical Review D, 103(10): 104047. Available: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.104047 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: D. E. Folley, and M. L. Chithambo. 2021. “Analysis of Thermoluminescence and Phosphorescence Related to Phototransfer in Natural Quartz.” Journal of Luminescence, 238: 118217. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2021.118217 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: John Bosco Habarulema, Daniel Okoh, Nicolas Bergeot, Dalia Burešová, Tshimangadzo Matamba, Mpho Tshisaphungo, et al. 2021. “Interhemispheric Comparison of the Ionosphere and Plasmasphere Total Electron Content Using GPS, Radio Occultation and Ionosonde Observations.” Advances in Space Research. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.05.004 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: John Bosco Habarulema, Daniel Okoh, Dalia Burešová, Babatunde Rabiu, Mpho Tshisaphungo, Michael Kosch, Ingemar Häggström, Philip J. Erickson, and Marco A. Milla. 2021. “A Global 3-D Electron Density Reconstruction Model Based on Radio Occultation Data and Neural Networks.” Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 221: 105702. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2021.105702 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: K Knowles, D S Pillay, S Amodeo, A J Baker, K Basu, D Crichton, et al. 2021. “MERGHERS Pilot: MeerKAT Discovery of Diffuse Emission in Nine Massive Sunyaev–Zel’dovich-Selected Galaxy Clusters from ACT.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(2): 1749–1758. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab939 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: J P McKean, R Luichies, A Drabent, G Gürkan, P Hartley, A Lafontaine, et al. 2021. “Gravitational Lensing in LoTSS DR2: Extremely Faint 144-MHz Radio Emission from Two Highly Magnified Quasars.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 505(1): L36–L40. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab033 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Ramesh Narayan, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Michael D. Johnson, Zachary Gelles, Elizabeth Himwich, Dominic O. Chang, et al. 2021. “The Polarized Image of a Synchrotron-Emitting Ring of Gas Orbiting a Black Hole.” The Astrophysical Journal, 912(1): 35. Available: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abf117 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: L S Oswald, A Karastergiou, B Posselt, S Johnston, M Bailes, S Buchner, et al. 2021. “The Thousand-Pulsar-Array Programme on MeerKAT – V. Scattering Analysis of Single-Component Pulsars.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(1): 1115–1128. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab980 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: A Parthasarathy, M Bailes, R M Shannon, W van Straten, S Osłowski, S Johnston, et al. 2021. “Measurements of Pulse Jitter and Single-Pulse Variability in Millisecond Pulsars Using MeerKAT.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(1): 407–422. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab037 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: M L Pretorius, D M Hewitt, P A Woudt, R P Fender, I Heywood, C Knigge, et al. 2021. “Radio and Optical Observations of the Possible AE Aqr Twin, LAMOST J024048.51+195226.9.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503(3): 3692–3697. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab498 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: U M Sob, H L Bester, O M Smirnov, J S Kenyon, and C Russeeawon. 2021. “Solution Intervals Considered Harmful: On the Optimality of Radio Interferometric Gain Solutions.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(2): 1714–1732. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab928 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: David A. Ebert, Robin W. Leslie, and Simon Weigmann. 2021. “Etmopterus Brosei Sp. Nov.: A New Lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Southeastern Atlantic and Southwestern Indian Oceans, with a Revised Key to the Etmopterus Lucifer Clade.” Marine Biodiversity, 51(3): 53. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-021-01173-0 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Paula Pattrick, Nicolas Weidberg, Wayne S. Goschen, Jennifer M. Jackson, Christopher D. McQuaid, and Francesca Porri. 2021. “Larval Fish Assemblage Structure at Coastal Fronts and the Influence of Environmental Variability.” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 684502. Available: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.684502 [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Noémie Deldicq, Laurent Seuront, and Vincent M. P. Bouchet. 2021. “Inter-Specific and Inter-Individual Trait Variability Matter in Surface Sediment Reworking Rates of Intertidal Benthic Foraminifera.” Marine Biology, 168(7): 101. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03908-w [Accessed 06 July 2021].
ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Dominic A. W. Henry, Wendy J. Collinson-Jonker, Harriet T. Davies-Mostert, Samantha K. Nicholson, Lizanne Roxburgh, and Daniel M. Parker. 2021. “Optimising the Cost of Roadkill Surveys Based on an Analysis of Carcass Persistence.” Journal of Environmental Management, 291: 112664. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112664 [Accessed 07 July 2021].
ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Jamie Hudson, Juan Carlos Castilla, Peter R. Teske, Luciano B. Beheregaray, Ivan D. Haigh, Christopher D. McQuaid, and Marc Rius. 2021. “Genomics-Informed Models Reveal Extensive Stretches of Coastline under Threat by an Ecologically Dominant Invasive Species.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(23): e2022169118. Available: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022169118 [Accessed 07 July 2021].
ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: I. A. Micklem, M. Connan, N. Stander, and C. D. McQuaid. 2021. “Influence of Ontogeny on Stable Isotope Ratios and Trophic Discrimination Factors of African Penguin (Spheniscus Demersus) Tissues.” Marine Biology, 168(7): 96. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03877-0 [Accessed 07 July 2021].
ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Murphy Tladi, Ryan J. Wasserman, Ross N. Cuthbert, Tatenda Dalu, and Casper Nyamukondiwa. 2021. “Thermal Limits and Preferences of Large Branchiopods (Branchiopoda: Anostraca and Spinicaudata) from Temporary Wetland Arid Zone Systems.” Journal of Thermal Biology, 99: 102997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2021.102997.
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