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A new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice found in Costa Rica

February 6, 2012
Several periods of field work during 2008 have led to the discovery of a new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice in Costa Rica's high-altitude region "Cerro de la Muerte". The discovery was made thanks to molecular data analysis of mitochondrial DNA. The collected records have also increased the overall knowledge ...

A new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice found in Costa Rica

February 6, 2012
Several periods of field work during 2008 have led to the discovery of a new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice in Costa Rica's high-altitude region "Cerro de la Muerte". The discovery was made thanks to molecular data analysis of mitochondrial DNA. The collected records have also increased the overall knowledge ...

A new species of gall makers in the aphid genus of plant lice was found in China

November 1, 2011
Aphid researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences found one new species, Aleurodaphis sinojackiae Qiao & Jiang, 2011 from Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, China. It forms leaf galls on Jack trees (Sinojackia xylocarpa) and is one of two known gall makers in the plant lice Aleurodaphis (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Hormaphidinae). The study ...

A new species of gall makers in the aphid genus of plant lice was found in China

November 1, 2011
Aphid researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences found one new species, Aleurodaphis sinojackiae Qiao & Jiang, 2011 from Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, China. It forms leaf galls on Jack trees ( Sinojackia xylocarpa ) and is one of two known gall makers in the plant lice ...

Lice tops seasonal Halloween creepy crawlies

October 17, 2011
Autumn brings tales of scary delight, but none terrifies parents so much as the note home from school that a case of lice has been detected.

Myths about head lice

October 14, 2011
Autumn brings tales of scary delight but none terrifies parents so much as the note home from school that a case of lice has been detected.

Lice from farmed salmon imperil wild salmon, new study confirms

August 23, 2011
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study on the impacts of lice on wild salmon published today by an independent team of academic researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) confirmed what many previous and unbiased studies have also shown, namely, that lice on farmed salmon can multiply ...

Parents In Canada: Head Lice Do Not Take The Summer Off, So Pack A Peace Of Mind For Summer Camp With Zippity Doo’s Lice Prevention

June 16, 2011
Zippity Doo's™, the fast-growing line of head lice-preventive hair care products for children, is now available in Canada at Shoppers Drug Mart, the country's only nationwide drugstore chain. Lice do not take a summer break, so moms and dads should pack a peace of mind before their kids go off ...

Topaz Pharmaceuticals Announces New Drug Application For The Treatment Of Head Lice Accepted By FDA

June 9, 2011
Topaz Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for filing the New Drug Application (NDA) for the use of ivermectin topical cream as a treatment for head lice infestations in children and adults. "This filing represents the ...

FDA accepts Topaz’s ivermectin NDA for treatment for head lice infestations

June 7, 2011
Topaz Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for filing the New Drug Application (NDA) for the use of ivermectin topical cream as a treatment for head lice infestations in children and adults.

Social network helps in discovery of a species of plant lice for the first time in Europe

May 17, 2011
Spanish researchers from the University of Leon (Nicols Prez Hidalgo and M. Pilar Mier Durante) have discovered the plant lice Schizaphis piricola ( Matsumura ) in Madrid, Spain from a photography displayed on a social network platform: "Biodiversidad Virtual" ( http://www.biodiversidadvirtual.org/ ) (ngel Umaran). The results have been ...

Hatchtech Commences 2b Clinical Trial Of New-Generation Head Lice Treatment DeOvo™

May 3, 2011
Venture-backed pharmaceutical company Hatchtech Pty Ltd has enrolled the first subjects for its Phase 2b clinical study to confirm the efficacy of its novel head lice treatment DeOvo™. This Phase 2b trial will evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of two dose levels of a single application of DeOvo compared ...