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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…

Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré
Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré

September 04, 1789 – January 16, 1854

France

Asteraceae

Collected Asteraceae and identified Amaranthaceae

Martin François Geay

1859 – 1910

Fabaceae

Collected Fabaceae and identified Pseudoxyrhophiidae

Collected Dactyloidae and identified Dactyloidae

Brian Gill

New Zealand

Gekkonidae

Collected Gekkonidae

Richard E. Glor

United States

Dactyloidae

Collected Dactyloidae and identified Dactyloidae

Jules Prosper Goudot

December 12, 1803 – February 14, 1858

France

Poaceae

Collected Poaceae and identified Scarabaeidae

Collected Sphaerodactylidae

Alice G.C. Grandison

March 25, 1927 – March 24, 2014

Hyperoliidae

Collected Hyperoliidae and identified Arthroleptidae

Chapman Grant

March 27, 1887 – January 05, 1983

United States

Sphaerodactylidae

Collected Sphaerodactylidae and identified Sphaerodactylidae

Rudolf Grauer
Rudolf Grauer

August 20, 1870 – December 17, 1927

Austria

Ploceidae

Collected Ploceidae

James Greenway
James Greenway

April 07, 1903 – June 10, 1989

United States

Muscicapidae

Collected Muscicapidae

Judson Linsley Gressitt

June 16, 1914 – April 26, 1982

United States

Collected Pelodryadidae and identified Chrysomelidae

Gordon Gross

August 07, 1926 – June 17, 2009

Australia

Pentatomidae

Collected Pentatomidae and identified Pentatomidae

Hermann Grote

July 07, 1882 – August 12, 1951

Asteraceae

Collected Asteraceae and identified Rubiaceae

Jean Louis Geneviève Guyon

April 05, 1794 – August 24, 1870

France

Scincidae

Collected Scincidae

Collected Microhylidae and identified Pelodryadidae

Albert Günther
Albert Günther

October 03, 1830 – February 01, 1914

Kingdom of Württemberg; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Colubridae

Collected Colubridae and identified Acanthuridae

Georg Haas
Georg Haas

January 19, 1905 – September 13, 1981

Israel

Collected Oxychilidae and identified Lacertidae

Julius von Haast
Julius von Haast

May 01, 1822 – August 16, 1887

New Zealand; Kingdom of Prussia

Asteraceae

Collected Asteraceae and identified Ranunculaceae

Collected Plethodontidae and identified Plethodontidae

François Jules Harmand
François Jules Harmand

October 23, 1845 – January 14, 1921

France

Hipposideridae

Collected Hipposideridae and identified Lecideaceae

Hermann Harms

July 06, 1870 – November 27, 1942

German Empire; Weimar Republic; Nazi Germany

Fabaceae

Collected Fabaceae and identified Fabaceae

W. Hague Harrington
W. Hague Harrington

April 19, 1852 – March 13, 1918

Canada

Melanthiaceae

Collected Melanthiaceae and identified Ericaceae

Betsy Harrison Gagne

1947 – March 2020

United States

Rubiaceae

Collected Rubiaceae and identified Smilacaceae

Ernst Hartert
Ernst Hartert

October 29, 1859 – November 11, 1933

Germany

Alaudidae

Collected Alaudidae

Charles Frederick Hartt
Charles Frederick Hartt

August 23, 1840 – March 18, 1878

Canada

Cichlidae

Collected Cichlidae and identified Emballonuridae

Roger Jean Heim
Roger Jean Heim

February 12, 1900 – September 17, 1979

France

Mantellidae

Collected Mantellidae and identified Inocybaceae

Gerd Heinrich

November 07, 1896 – December 17, 1984

Germany; United States

Cisticolidae

Collected Cisticolidae and identified Ichneumonidae

Wilhelm Hemprich

June 24, 1796 – June 30, 1825

Kingdom of Prussia

Lacertidae

Collected Lacertidae

John Roscoe Hendrickson

August 26, 1921 – September 06, 2002

Plethodontidae

Collected Plethodontidae and identified Microhylidae