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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…

Collected Hyperoliidae and identified Hyperoliidae

Joseph Charles Bequaert
Joseph Charles Bequaert

May 24, 1886 – January 12, 1982

Belgium; United States

Fabaceae

Collected Fabaceae and identified Eumenidae

Karl Heinrich Bergius

1790 – 1818

Kingdom of Prussia

Asteraceae

Collected Asteraceae

Peter Jonas Bergius
Peter Jonas Bergius

July 06, 1730 – July 10, 1790

Sweden

Poaceae

Collected Poaceae and identified Fabaceae

Charles Edward Bewsher

? – 20. century

Aspleniaceae

Collected Aspleniaceae

George Eugene Beyer

September 09, 1861 – June 02, 1926

Scolopacidae

Collected Scolopacidae

Henry Bryant Bigelow

October 03, 1879 – December 11, 1967

United States

Scolopacidae

Collected Scolopacidae and identified Rhopalonematidae

David C. Blackburn

United States

Hyperoliidae

Collected Hyperoliidae and identified Arthroleptidae

Frank Ellsworth Blaisdell

March 13, 1862 – July 06, 1946

United States

Carabidae

Collected Carabidae and identified Tenebrionidae

William Thomas Blanford
William Thomas Blanford

October 07, 1832 – June 23, 1905

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; United Kingdom

Agamidae

Collected Agamidae

Pieter Bleeker
Pieter Bleeker

July 10, 1819 – January 24, 1878

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Labridae

Collected Labridae and identified Labridae

José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage

May 02, 1823 – November 03, 1907

Kingdom of Portugal

Vespertilionidae

Collected Vespertilionidae and identified Atractaspididae

Julius Boos

1946 – 2010

Dactyloidae

Collected Dactyloidae and identified Geraniaceae

Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc
Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc

January 29, 1759 – July 10, 1828

France

Asteraceae

Collected Asteraceae

Paul-Émile Botta
Paul-Émile Botta

December 06, 1802 – March 29, 1870

France

Solanaceae

Collected Solanaceae

George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger

October 19, 1858 – November 23, 1937

United Kingdom; Belgium; France

Hypericaceae

Collected Hypericaceae and identified Mormyridae

Aimé Bouvier

March 29, 1843 – April 21, 1919

Colubridae

Collected Colubridae

Collected Phrynosomatidae and identified Teiidae

William Roy Branch

May 12, 1946 – October 14, 2018

South Africa

Identified Gekkonidae

Dennis Eugene Breedlove

September 14, 1939 – June 04, 2012

United States

Asteraceae

Collected Asteraceae and identified Fagaceae

Donald George Broadley

May 29, 1932 – March 10, 2016

United Kingdom

Amphisbaenidae

Collected Amphisbaenidae and identified Scincidae

Collected Dicroglossidae and identified Ceratobatrachidae

Charles Thomas Brues

June 20, 1879 – July 22, 1955

United States

Poaceae

Collected Poaceae and identified Braconidae

Édouard-Raoul Brygoo
Édouard-Raoul Brygoo

April 22, 1920 – February 08, 2016

France

Chamaeleonidae

Collected Chamaeleonidae and identified Scincidae

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

August 19, 1874 – July 03, 1944

Canada

Collected Polyporaceae and identified Agaricaceae

Dillman Bullock
Dillman Bullock

November 25, 1878 – April 05, 1971

Chile

Liolaemidae

Collected Liolaemidae and identified Characidae

Joseph Bürgers

August 27, 1881 – August 26, 1954

Morabidae

Collected Morabidae

Richard Büttner

September 28, 1858 – 1927

German Confederation; German Empire; Prussia

Acrididae

Collected Acrididae and identified Plagiochilaceae

Collected Fabaceae and identified Fabaceae

Collected Dactyloidae and identified Dactyloidae