Matthew ONeal

Insect pests significantly impact global agricultural productivity and crop quality. Effective integrated pest management strategies require the identification of insects, including beneficial and harmful insects. Automated identification of insects under...

Introduction: Effective monitoring of insect-pests is vital for safeguarding agricultural yields and ensuring food security. Recent advances in computer vision and machine learning have opened up significant possibilities of automated...

Background: Mutations in the CLN6 gene cause late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, a neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disease of childhood onset. Clinically, individuals present with progressive motor and cognitive regression, ataxia,...

Intensified agriculture reduces natural and seminatural habitats and plant diversity, reducing forage available to honey bees (Apis mellifera L. [Hymenoptera: Apidea]). In agricultural landscapes of Iowa, United States, we studied...

Background: Plants are thought to produce ecdysteroids as a means of protection from insect herbivores. Some insects will not feed on plants containing high amounts of phytoecdysteroids, and this response...

The spread and impact of invasive species may vary over time in relation to changes in the species itself, the biological community of which it is part, or external controls...

Reconstructing prairie vegetation in row crop-dominated agricultural landscapes may contribute to several ecosystem services, including the biological control of insect pests, such as the soybean aphid Aphis glycines Matsumura. The...

Background: The Prothrombin Time (PT) assay is clinically the most often requested coagulation test, as used primarily for monitoring of Vitamin K antagonist therapy where results are typically expressed as...