Science & Pharmacy Research Output: October 2019

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ALBANY MUSEUM: Blanckenberg, M., Mlambo, M.C., Parker, D. & Reed, C. 2019. The negative impacts of fire on the resurrection ecology of invertebrates from temporary wetlands in Cape Flats Sand Fynbos in the Western Cape, South Africa: Fire reduces invertebrate hatching success. Austral Ecology, 44(7): 1225-1235. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.12800 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

ALBANY MUSEUM: Mlambo, M.C., Paavola, R., Fritze, H., Louhi, P. & Muotka, T. 2019. Leaf litter decomposition and decomposer communities in streams affected by intensive forest biomass removal. Ecological Indicators, 101: 364–372. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.01.035 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Dorrington, R.A., Jiwaji, M., Awando, J.A. & de Bruyn, M.-M. 2019. Advances in Tetravirus Research: New Insight into the Infectious Virus Life Cycle and an Expanding Host Range. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 34: 145–161. Available: https://doi.org/10.21775/cimb.034.145 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY & GEOGRAPHY: Staebe, K., Meiklejohn, K.I., Singh, S.M. & Matcher, G.F. 2019. Biogeography of soil bacterial populations in the Jutulsessen and Ahlmannryggen of Western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 42(8): 1445–1458. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-019-02532-1 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Nizami, B., Sarasia, E.M., Momin, M.I.K. & Honarparvar, B. 2019. Estrogenic Active Stilbene Derivatives as Anti-Cancer Agents: A DFT and QSAR Study. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 16(2): 560–568. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCBB.2017.2779505.

BOTANY & ANTHROPOLOGY: Merçon, J., Vetter, S., Tengö, M., Cocks, M., Balvanera, P., Rosell, J.A. & Ayala-Orozco, B. 2019. From local landscapes to international policy: contributions of the biocultural paradigm to global sustainability. Global Sustainability, 2: e7. Available: https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2019.4 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

BOTANY: Dunning, L.T., Moreno-Villena, J.J., Lundgren, M.R., Dionora, J., Salazar, P., Adams, C., Nyirenda, F., Olofsson, J.K., Mapaura, A., Grundy, I.M., Kayombo, C.J., Dunning, L.A., Kentatchime, F., Ariyarathne, M., Yakandawala, D., Besnard, G., Quick, W.P., Bräutigam, A., Osborne, C.P. & Christin, P.-A. 2019. Key changes in gene expression identified for different stages of C4 evolution in Alloteropsis semialata. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70(12): 3255–3268. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erz149 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

BOTANY: Mathakutha, R., Steyn, C., le Roux, P.C., Blom, I.J., Chown, S.L., Daru, B.H., Ripley, B.S., Louw, A. & Greve, M. 2019. Invasive species differ in key functional traits from native and non-invasive alien plant species. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(5): 994-1006. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12772 [Accessed 10 October 2019]

CENTRE FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL: Griffith, T.C., Paterson, I.D., Owen, C.A. & Coetzee, J.A. 2019. Thermal plasticity and microevolution enhance establishment success and persistence of a water hyacinth biological control agent. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 167(7): 616–625. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12814 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

CENTRE FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL: Paterson, I.D., Coetzee, J.A., Weyl, P., Griffith, T.C., Voogt, N. & Hill, M.P. 2019. Cryptic species of a water hyacinth biological control agent revealed in South Africa: host specificity, impact, and thermal tolerance. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 167(7), 682–691. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12812 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

CENTRE FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL: Smith, R., Mangan, R. & Coetzee, J.A. 2019. Risk assessment to interpret the physiological host range of Hydrellia egeriae, a biocontrol agent for Egeria densa. BioControl, 64(4): 447–456. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-019-09942-4 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

CENTRE FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL: Strange, E.F., Landi, P., Hill, J.M. & Coetzee, J.A. 2019. Modeling Top-Down and Bottom-Up Drivers of a Regime Shift in Invasive Aquatic Plant Stable States. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10: 889. Available: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00889 [Accessed 14 October 2019]

CHEMISTRY: Gu, T., Tao, J., Zhu, W., Mack, J., Soy, R.C., Nyokong, T., Xu, H., Li, M. & Liang, X. 2019. Co(ii)Tetraphenyltetraphenanthroporphyrin@MWCNTs: enhanced π–π interaction for robust electrochemical catalysis. New Journal of Chemistry, 43(26): 10631–10636. Available: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NJ01707K [Accessed 10 October 2019].

CHEMISTRY: Mpeta, L.S. & Nyokong, T. 2019. Enhanced electrocatalytic activity of cobalt phthalocyanines when “clicked” to graphene oxide nanosheets. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 23(07n08): 828–840. Available: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1088424619500688 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

CHEMISTRY: Ndebele, N., Hlatshwayo, Z., Ngoy, B.P., Kubheka, G., Mack, J. & Nyokong, T. 2019. Optical limiting properties of BODIPY dyes substituted with styryl or vinylene groups on the nanosecond timescale. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 23(07n08): 701-717. Available: https://doi.org/10.1142/S108842461930009X [Accessed 10 October 2019].

CHEMISTRY: Nnaji, N., Nwaji, N., Fomo, G., Mack, J. & Nyokong, T. 2019. Inhibition of Aluminium Corrosion Using Benzothiazole and Its Phthalocyanine Derivative. Electrocatalysis, 10(4): 445–458. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12678-019-00538-1 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

CHEMISTRY, PHARMACY & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Beteck, R.M., Legoabe, L.J., Isaacs, M., Khanye, S.D., Laming, D. & Hoppe, H.C. 2019. Anti-Trypanosomal and Antimalarial Properties of Tetralone Derivatives and Structurally Related Benzocycloalkanones. Medicina, 55(5): 206. Available:  https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina55050206 [Accessed 10 October 2019].

CHEMISTRY: Ramírez-García, G., d’Orlyé, F., Nyokong, T., Bedioui, F. & Varenne, A. 2019. Physicochemical Characterization of Phthalocyanine-Functionalized Quantum Dots by Capillary Electrophoresis Coupled to a LED Fluorescence Detector, in: Weissig, V. & Elbayoumi, T. (Eds.), Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology. Springer New York, New York, NY, pp. 373–385. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9516-5_23.

CHEMISTRY: Sen, P. 2019. A highly fluorescent tri-nuclear boron complex with large Stokes shifts based on tripodal Schiff base: synthesis and photophysical properties. Journal of Chemical Sciences, 131: 63. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12039-019-1643-4 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

CHEMISTRY: van Losenoord, W., Krause, J., Parker-Nance, S., Krause, R., Stoychev, S. & Frost, C.L. 2019. Purification and biochemical characterisation of a putative sodium channel agonist secreted from the South African Knobbly sea anemone Bunodosoma capense. Toxicon, 168: 147–157. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2019.06.222 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Weilbach, W.T. & Motara, Y.M. 2019. Distributed Ledger Technology to Support Digital Evidence Integrity Verification Processes, in: Venter, H., Loock, M., Coetzee, M., Eloff, M., Eloff, J. (Eds.), Information Security. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 1–15. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11407-7_1.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Gambiza, J. & Didarali, Z. 2019. Permaculture: Challenges and benefits in improving rural livelihoods in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Sustainability, 11(8): 2219. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11082219 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Ruwanza, S. & Dondofema, F. 2019. Effects of exotic guava (Psidium guajava L.) invasion on soil properties in Limpopo, South Africa. African Journal of Ecology. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12675 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Sardeshpande, M. & Shackleton, C. 2019. Wild Edible Fruits: A Systematic Review of an Under-Researched Multifunctional NTFP (Non-Timber Forest Product). Forests, 10(6): 467. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/f10060467 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

GEOGRAPHY: Foster, I.D.L., Biddulph, M., Boardman, J., Copeland-Phillips, R., Evans, J., Pulley, S.J., Zhang, Y. & Collins, A.L. 2019. A palaeoenvironmental study of particle size-specific connectivity-New insights and implications from the West Sussex Rother Catchment, United Kingdom. River Research and Applications, 35 (8): 1192-1202. Available: https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3477 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

GEOLOGY: Moore, A.E. & Helmstaedt, H. 2019. Evidence for two blue (type IIb) diamond populations. Nature, 570: E26–E27. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1245-9 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

GEOLOGY: Prevec, S.A. 2018. Igneous Rock Associations 23. The Bushveld Complex, South Africa: New Insights and Paradigms. Geoscience Canada, 45(3 & 4): 117–135. Available: https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2018.45.138.

GEOLOGY: Rasmussen, B., Muhling, J.R., Tosca, N.J. & Tsikos, H. 2019. Evidence for anoxic shallow oceans at 2.45 Ga: Implications for the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis. Geology, 47(7): 622–626. Available: https://doi.org/10.1130/G46162.1 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

GEOLOGY: Scoon, R.N. & Viljoen, M.J. 2019. Geoheritage of the Eastern Limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa: a Uniquely Exposed Layered Igneous Intrusion. Geoheritage. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-019-00360-7 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Mofu, L., South, J., Wasserman, R.J., Dalu, T., Woodford, D.J., Dick, J.T.A. & Weyl, O.L.F. 2019. Inter-specific differences in invader and native fish functional responses illustrate neutral effects on prey but superior invader competitive ability. Freshwater Biology, 64(9): 1655–1663. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13361 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Schleyer, M.H., Downey-Breedt, N.J. & Benayahu, Y. 2019. Species composition of Alcyonacea (Octocorallia) on coral reefs at Europa Island and associated connectivity across the Mozambique Channel. Marine Biodiversity. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-019-00975-7 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE & SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY: Maggs, J., Cowley, P., Porter, S. & Childs, A. 2019. Should I stay or should I go? Intra-population variability in movement behaviour of wide-ranging and resident coastal fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 619: 111–124. Available: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12953 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Akamagwuna, F.C., Mensah, P.K., Nnadozie, C.F. & Odume, O.N. 2019. Trait-based responses of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera to sediment stress in the Tsitsa River and its tributaries, Eastern Cape, South Africa. River Research and Applications, 35(7): 999–1012. Available: https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3458 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Choruma, D., Balkovic, J. & Odume, O.N. 2019. Calibration and validation of the EPIC model for maize production in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Agronomy, 9(9): 494. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy9090494 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH & GEOGRAPHY: Lidzhegu, Z., Ellery, W.N., Mantel, S.K. & Hughes, D.A. 2019. Delineating wetland areas from the cut-and-fill method using a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). South African Geographical Journal, 1–19. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2019.1638825 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Hughes, D.A. 2019. A simple approach to estimating channel transmission losses in large South African river basins. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 25: 100619. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2019.100619 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Nnadozie, C.F. & Odume, O.N. 2019. Freshwater environments as reservoirs of antibiotic resistant bacteria and their role in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes. Environmental Pollution, 254(Part B): 113067. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113067 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Odume, O.N. 2020. Searching for urban pollution signature and sensitive macroinvertebrate traits and ecological preferences in a river in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Ecological Indicators, 108: 105759. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105759 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Odume, O.N. & de Wet, C. 2019. A Systemic-Relational Ethical Framework for Aquatic Ecosystem Health Research and Management in Social–Ecological Systems. Sustainability, 11(19): 5261. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11195261 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

MATHEMATICS (PURE AND APPLIED): Barrett, D., McLean, C.E. & Remsing, C.C. 2019. Control Systems on the Engel Group. Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, 25(3): 377–402. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10883-018-9418-7 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

MATHEMATICS (PURE AND APPLIED): Barrett, D.I. & Remsing, C.C. 2019. A note on flat nonholonomic Riemannian structures on three-dimensional Lie groups. Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie/ Contributions to Algebra and Geometry, 60(3): 419–436. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13366-018-0421-7 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

MATHEMATICS (PURE AND APPLIED): Doulis, G., Frauendiener, J., Stevens, C. & Whale, B. 2019. COFFEE—An MPI-parallelized Python package for the numerical evolution of differential equations. SoftwareX, 10: 100283. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2019.100283 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Avila, S., Banerji, M., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M.R., Bertin, E., Blazek, J., Bridle, S.L., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Burke, D.L., Campos, A., Carnero Rosell, A., Kind, M.C., Carretero, J., Castander, F.J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, A., Crocce, M., Cunha, C.E., da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Di Valentino, E., Diehl, H.T., Dietrich, J.P., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T.F., Elvin-Poole, J., Evrard, A.E., Fernandez, E., Ferte, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D.W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W.G., Hollowood, D.L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Huterer, D., Jain, B., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M.W.G., Johnson, M.D., Kim, A.G., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, S., Lemos, P., Leonard, C.D., Li, T.S., Liddle, A.R., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. a. G., Marshall, J.L., Martini, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C.J., Miquel, R., Miranda, V., Mohr, J.J., Muir, J., Nichol, R.C., Nord, B., Ogando, R.L.C., Plazas, A.A., Raveri, M., Rollins, R.P., Romer, A.K., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Samuroff, S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Scolnic, D., Secco, L.F., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Troxel, M.A., Vikram, V., Walker, A.R., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R.H., Weller, J., Yanny, B., Zhang, Y. & Zuntz, J. 2019. Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Constraints on extended cosmological models from galaxy clustering and weak lensing. Physical Review D, 99: 123505. Available: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.123505 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Barack, L., Cardoso, V., Nissanke, S., Sotiriou, T.P., Askar, A., Belczynski, C., Bertone, G., Bon, E., Blas, D., Brito, R., Bulik, T., Burrage, C., Byrnes, C.T., Caprini, C., Chernyakova, M., Chruściel, P., Colpi, M., Ferrari, V., Gaggero, D., Gair, J., García-Bellido, J., Hassan, S.F., Heisenberg, L., Hendry, M., Heng, I.S., Herdeiro, C., Hinderer, T., Horesh, A., Kavanagh, B.J., Kocsis, B., Kramer, M., Le Tiec, A., Mingarelli, C., Nardini, G., Nelemans, G., Palenzuela, C., Pani, P., Perego, A., Porter, E.K., Rossi, E.M., Schmidt, P., Sesana, A., Sperhake, U., Stamerra, A., Stein, L.C., Tamanini, N., Tauris, T.M., Urena-López, L.A., Vincent, F., Volonteri, M., Wardell, B., Wex, N., Yagi, K., Abdelsalhin, T., Aloy, M.Á., Amaro-Seoane, P., Annulli, L., Arca-Sedda, M., Bah, I., Barausse, E., Barakovic, E., Benkel, R., Bennett, C.L., Bernard, L., Bernuzzi, S., Berry, C.P.L., Berti, E., Bezares, M., Blanco-Pillado, J.J., Blázquez-Salcedo, J.L., Bonetti, M., Bošković, M., Bosnjak, Z., Bricman, K., Brügmann, B., Capelo, P.R., Carloni, S., Cerdá-Durán, P., Charmousis, C., Chaty, S., Clerici, A., Coates, A., Colleoni, M., Collodel, L.G., Compère, G., Cook, W., Cordero-Carrión, I., Correia, M., de la Cruz-Dombriz, Á., Czinner, V.G., Destounis, K., Dialektopoulos, K., Doneva, D., Dotti, M., Drew, A., Eckner, C., Edholm, J., Emparan, R., Erdem, R., Ferreira, M., Ferreira, P.G., Finch, A., Font, J.A., Franchini, N., Fransen, K., Gal’tsov, D., Ganguly, A., Gerosa, D., Glampedakis, K., Gomboc, A., Goobar, A., Gualtieri, L., Guendelman, E., Haardt, F., Harmark, T., Hejda, F., Hertog, T., Hopper, S., Husa, S., Ihanec, N., Ikeda, T., Jaodand, A., Jetzer, P., Jimenez-Forteza, X., Kamionkowski, M., Kaplan, D.E., Kazantzidis, S., Kimura, M., Kobayashi, S., Kokkotas, K., Krolik, J., Kunz, J., Lämmerzahl, C., Lasky, P., Lemos, J.P.S., Levi Said, J., Liberati, S., Lopes, J., Luna, R., Ma, Y.-Z., Maggio, E., Mangiagli, A., Montero, M.M., Maselli, A., Mayer, L., Mazumdar, A., Messenger, C., Ménard, B., Minamitsuji, M., Moore, C.J., Mota, D., Nampalliwar, S., Nerozzi, A., Nichols, D., Nissimov, E., Obergaulinger, M., Obers, N.A., Oliveri, R., Pappas, G., Pasic, V., Peiris, H., Petrushevska, T., Pollney, D., Pratten, G., Rakic, N., Racz, I., Radia, M., Ramazanoğlu, F.M., Ramos-Buades, A., Raposo, G., Rogatko, M., Rosca-Mead, R., Rosinska, D., Rosswog, S., Ruiz-Morales, E., Sakellariadou, M., Sanchis-Gual, N., Sharan Salafia, O., Samajdar, A., Sintes, A., Smole, M., Sopuerta, C., Souza-Lima, R., Stalevski, M., Stergioulas, N., Stevens, C., Tamfal, T., Torres-Forné, A., Tsygankov, S., İ Ünlütürk, K., Valiante, R., van de Meent, M., Velhinho, J., Verbin, Y., Vercnocke, B., Vernieri, D., Vicente, R., Vitagliano, V., Weltman, A., Whiting, B., Williamson, A., Witek, H., Wojnar, A., Yakut, K., Yan, H., Yazadjiev, S., Zaharijas, G. & Zilhão, M. 2019. Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(14): 143001. Available: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ab0587 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Brustein, R. & Medved, A.J.M. 2019. Non‐Singular Black Holes Interiors Need Physics Beyond the Standard Model. Fortschritte der Physik - Progress of Physics, 67(10): 1900058. Available: https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.201900058 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Chithambo, M.L. 2019. Time-resolved Luminescence: Progress in Development of Theory and Analytical Methods, in: Advances in Physics and Applications of Optically and Thermally Stimulated Luminescence. WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE), pp. 243–284. Available: https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786345790_0007.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Crocce, M., Ross, A.J., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Gaztanaga, E., Elvin-Poole, J., Avila, S., Alarcon, A., Chan, K.C., Banik, N., Carretero, J., Sanchez, E., Hartley, W.G., Sánchez, C., Giannantonio, T., Rosenfeld, R., Salvador, A.I., Garcia-Fernandez, M., García-Bellido, J., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bernstein, G.M., Bernstein, R.A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Rosell, A.C., Kind, M.C., Castander, F.J., Cawthon, R., Cunha, C.E., D’Andrea, C.B., da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T.F., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D.W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D., Honscheid, K., Jain, B., James, D.J., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuhlmann, S., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M.A.G., Marshall, J.L., Martini, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C.J., Miquel, R., Nichol, R.C., Percival, W.J., Plazas, A.A., Sako, M., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Scolnic, D., Sheldon, E., Smith, M., Smith, R.C., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Tucker, D.L., Vikram, V., Walker, A.R., Yanny, B. & Zhang, Y. 2019. Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: galaxy sample for BAO measurement. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2): 2807–2822. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2522 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Dickinson, C., Barr, A., Chiang, H.C., Copley, C., Grumitt, R.D.P., Harper, S.E., Heilgendorff, H.M., Jew, L.R.P., Jonas, J.L., Jones, M.E., Leahy, J.P., Leech, J., Leitch, E.M., Muchovej, S.J.C., Pearson, T.J., Peel, M.W., Readhead, A.C.S., Sievers, J., Stevenson, M.A. & Taylor, A.C. 2019. The C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS): constraining diffuse Galactic radio emission in the North Celestial Pole region. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(2): 2844–2860. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz522 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Govoni, F., Orru, E., Bonafede, A., Iacobelli, M., Paladino, R., Vazza, F., Murgia, M., Vacca, V., Giovannini, G., Feretti, L., Loi, F., Bernardi, G., Ferrari, C., Pizzo, R.F., Gheller, C., Manti, S., Bruggen, M., Brunetti, G., Cassano, R., de Gasperin, F., Ensslin, T.A., Hoeft, M., Horellou, C., Junklewitz, H., Rottgering, H.J.A., Scaife, A.M.M., Shimwell, T.W., van Weeren, R.J. & Wise, M. 2019. A radio ridge connecting two galaxy clusters in a filament of the cosmic web. Science, 364(6444): 981-984. Available: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7500 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Gu, L., Akamatsu, H., Shimwell, T.W., Intema, H.T., van Weeren, R.J., de Gasperin, F., Mernier, F., Mao, J., Urdampilleta, I., de Plaa, J., Parekh, V., Röttgering, H.J.A., Kaastra, J.S. 2019. Observations of a pre-merger shock in colliding clusters of galaxies. Nature Astronomy, 3: 838–843. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0798-8.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Habarulema, J.B., Lefebvre, G., Moldwin, M.B., Katamzi‐Joseph, Z.T. & Yizengaw, E. 2019. Counter‐Electrojet Occurrence as Observed From C/NOFS Satellite and Ground‐Based Magnetometer Data Over the African and American Sectors. Space Weather, 17(7): 1090-1104. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1029/2019SW002236 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Iheanetu, K., Girard, J.N., Smirnov, O., Asad, K.M.B., de Villiers, M., Thorat, K., Makhathini, S. & Perley, R.A. 2019. Primary beam effects of radio astronomy antennas – I. Modelling the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) L-band beam using holography. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(3): 4107–4121. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz702 [Accessed 11 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Leahy, D.A., Hopkins, A.M., Norris, R.P., Marvil, J., Collier, J.D., Taylor, E.N., Allison, J.R., Anderson, C., Bell, M., Bilicki, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M.J., Driyer, S., Gurkan, G., Haryey-Smith, L., Heywood, I., Holwerda, B.W., Liske, J., Lopez-Sanchez, A.R., McConnell, D., Moffett, A., Owers, M.S., Pimbblet, K.A., Raja, W., Seymour, N., Voronkov, M.A. & Wang, L. 2019. ASKAP commissioning observations of the GAMA 23 field. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 36: e024. Available: https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2019.16 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Malyali, A., Rivi, M., Abdalla, F.B. & McEwen, J.D. 2019. Radio galaxy detection in the visibility domain. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(2): 2695–2704. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz977 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Mhaskey, M., Gopal-Krishna, Dabhade, P., Paul, S., Salunkhe, S. & Sirothia, S.K. 2019. GMRT observations of extragalactic radio sources with steeply inverted spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(2): 2447–2456. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz335 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Michalowski, M.J., Kamphuis, P., Hjorth, J., Kann, D.A., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Galbany, L., Fynbo, J.P.U., Ghosh, A., Hunt, L.K., Kuncarayakti, H., Le Floc’h, E., Lesniewska, A., Misra, K., Guelbenzu, A.N., Palazzi, E., Rasmussen, J., Resmi, L., Rossi, A., Savaglio, S., Schady, P., Schulze, S., Thone, C.C., Watson, D., Jozsa, G.I.G., Serra, P. & Smirnov, O.M. 2019. Nature of the unusual transient AT 2018cow from HI observations of its host galaxy. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 627: A106. Available: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935372.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Prat, J., Baxter, E., Shin, T., Sanchez, C., Chang, C., Jain, B., Miquel, R., Alarcon, A., Bacon, D., Bernstein, G.M., Cawthon, R., Crawford, T.M., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Dodelson, S., Eifler, T.F., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Gruen, D., Hartley, W.G., Holder, G.P., Hoyle, B., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., MacCrann, N., Mawdsley, B., Nicola, A., Omori, Y., Pujol, A., Rau, M.M., Reichardt, C.L., Samuroff, S., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M.A., Vielzeuf, P., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Annis, J., Avila, S., Aylor, K., Benson, B.A., Bertin, E., Bleem, L.E., Brooks, D., Burke, D.L., Carlstrom, J.E., Kind, M.C., Carretero, J., Chang, C.L., Cho, H.-M., Chown, R., Crites, A.T., Cunha, C.E., da Costa, L.N., Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Dietrich, J.P., Dobbs, M.A., Doel, P., Everett, W.B., Evrard, A.E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E.M., Gerdes, D.W., Giannantonio, T., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., de Haan, T., Halverson, N.W., Harrington, N.L., Holzapfel, W.L., Honscheid, K., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J.D., James, D.J., Jeltema, T., Knox, L., Kron, R., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A.T., Leitch, E.M., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., Maia, M. a. G., Manzotti, A., Marrone, D.P., Marshall, J.L., McMahon, J.J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S.S., Miller, C.J., Mocanu, L.M., Mohr, J.J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Plazas, A.A., Pryke, C., Romer, A.K., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J.E., Rykoff, E.S., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J.T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K.K., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Shirokoff, E., Simard, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A.A., Story, K.T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J.D., Vikram, V., Walker, A.R., Weller, J., Williamson, R. & Zahn, O. 2019. Cosmological lensing ratios with DES Y1, SPT, and Planck. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(1): 1363–1379. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1309 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Price, D.C., Foster, G., Geyer, M., van Straten, W., Gajjar, V., Hellbourg, G., Karastergiou, A., Keane, E.F., Siemion, A.P.V., Arcavi, I., Bhat, R., Caleb, M., Chang, S.-W., Croft, S., DeBoer, D., de Pater, I., Drew, J., Enriquez, J.E., Farah, W., Gizani, N., Green, J.A., Isaacson, H., Hickish, J., Jameson, A., Lebofsky, M., MacMahon, D.H.E., Moller, A., Onken, C.A., Petroff, E., Werthimer, D., Wolf, C., Worden, S.P. & Zhang, Y.G. 2019. A fast radio burst with frequency-dependent polarization detected during Breakthrough Listen observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(3): 3636–3646. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz958 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Ramatsoku, M., Serra, P., Poggianti, B.M., Moretti, A., Gullieuszik, M., Bettoni, D., Deb, T., Fritz, J., van Gorkom, J.H., Jaffé, Y.L., Tonnesen, S., Verheijen, M.A.W., Vulcani, B., Hugo, B., Józsa, G.I.G., Maccagni, F.M., Makhathini, S., Ramaila, A., Smirnov, O. & Thorat, K. 2019. GASP – XVII. H i imaging of the jellyfish galaxy JO206: gas stripping and enhanced star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(4): 4580–4591. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1609 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Sanidas, S., Cooper, S., Bassa, C.G., Hessels, J.W.T., Kondratiev, V., Michilli, D., Stappers, B.W., Tan, C.M., van Leeuwen, J., Cerrigone, L., Fallows, R.A., Iacobelli, M., Orru, E., Pizzo, R.F., Shulevski, A., Toribio, M.C., ter Veen, S., Zucca, P., Bondonneau, L., Griessmeier, J.-M., Karastergiou, A., Kramer, M. & Sobey, C. 2019. The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS): Survey overview and initial pulsar discoveries. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 626: A104. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935609.

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Morse, P., Mole, M., Bester, M., Johnson, R., Scacco, U. & Gennari, E. 2019. Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) adjust traversing behaviour with lunar conditions in the high white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) density waters of Mossel Bay, South Africa. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 622: 219–230. Available: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13051 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Dalu, T., Wasserman, R.J., Magoro, M.L., Froneman, P.W. & Weyl, O.L.F. 2019. River nutrient water and sediment measurements inform on nutrient retention, with implications for eutrophication. Science of the Total Environment, 684: 296–302. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.167 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Hayward, M.W., Callen, A., Allen, B.L., Ballard, G., Broekhuis, F., Bugir, C., Clarke, R.H., Clulow, J., Clulow, S., Daltry, J.C., Davies-Mostert, H.T., Fleming, P.J.S., Griffin, A.S., Howell, L.G., Kerley, G.I.H., Klop-Toker, K., Legge, S., Major, T., Meyer, N., Montgomery, R.A., Moseby, K., Parker, D.M., Periquet, S., Read, J., Scanlon, R.J., Seeto, R., Shuttleworth, C., Somers, M.J., Tamessar, C.T., Tuft, K., Upton, R., Valenzuela-Molina, M., Wayne, A., Witt, R.R. & Wuster, W. 2019. Deconstructing compassionate conservation. Conservation Biology, 33(4): 760–768. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13366 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Mann, G.K.H., Wilkinson, A., Hayward, J., Drouilly, M., O’Riain, M.J. & Parker, D.M. 2019. The effects of aridity on land use, biodiversity and dietary breadth in leopards. Mammalian Biology, 98: 43–51. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2019.07.003 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Matuszewski, S., Hall, M.J.R., Moreau, G., Schoenly, K.G., Tarone, A.M. & Villet, M.H. 2019. Pigs vs people: the use of pigs as analogues for humans in forensic entomology and taphonomy research. International Journal of Legal Medicine. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02074-5 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Mnqeta, Z. & Paterson, I.D. 2019. Interactions between two biological control agents and their target weed: a beetle, a bug and a cactus weed. Biocontrol Science and Technology, 29(10): 979–990. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2019.1631960 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Ndhlovu, A., McQuaid, C.D., Nicastro, K., Marquet, N., Gektidis, M., Monaco, C.J. & Zardi, G. 2019. Biogeographical Patterns of Endolithic Infestation in an Invasive and an Indigenous Intertidal Marine Ecosystem Engineer. Diversity, 11(5): 75. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/d11050075 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Rink, A.N., Altwegg, R., Edwards, S., Bowie, R.C.K. & Colville, J.F. 2019. Contest dynamics and assessment strategies in combatant monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini). Behavioral Ecology, 30(3): 713–723. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz008 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Simon, C., du Toit, A., Smith, M., Claassens, L., Smith, F. & Smith, P. 2019. Bait collecting by subsistence and recreational fishers in Knysna Estuary may impact management and conservation. African Zoology, 54(2): 91–103. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2019.1608862 [Accessed 14 October 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Smit, B., Woodborne, S., Wolf, B.O. & McKechnie, A.E. 2019. Differences in the use of surface water resources by desert birds are revealed using isotopic tracers. The Auk, 136(1): uky005. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/uky005 [Accessed 14 October 2019].