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Weterings, R., M. Barbetti, and H. L. Buckley. 2019. Hypothesis: Do invasive house geckos exacerbate dengue fever epidemics? Biological Invasions 21: 3533–3543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-019-02066-x

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease that has undergone a marked rise in incidence since the 1950s, throughout the world’s tropical regions. Here, we present a hypothesis that this rise in incidence may have been exacerbated by the invasion of house geckos, due to their role in the mosquito vect…

John Todd Zimmer

February 28, 1889 – January 06, 1957

United States

Muridae

Collected Muridae and identified Accipitridae

Collected Gekkonidae

Richard G. Zweifel

November 05, 1926 – November 25, 2019

United States

Phrynosomatidae

Collected Phrynosomatidae and identified Microhylidae

Collected Tyrannidae and identified Cricetidae

Alcide d'Orbigny
Alcide d'Orbigny

September 06, 1802 – June 30, 1857

France

Asteraceae

Collected Asteraceae and identified Ichthyolariidae

Collected Craugastoridae

Collected Muridae and identified Muridae

Carlo von Erlanger
Carlo von Erlanger

September 05, 1872 – September 04, 1904

German Empire

Fringillidae

Collected Fringillidae

Friedrich von Medem

August 29, 1912 – May 01, 1984

Germany

Teiidae

Collected Teiidae and identified Trichomycteridae

Jasper Martin Otto von Oertzen

September 24, 1880 – January 08, 1948

Clausiliidae

Collected Clausiliidae and identified Clausiliidae