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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

RESEARCH ARTICLE Malaria Prevalence Near African Mangroves: Negative Association With Mangrove Extent, but Positive Association With Mangrove Greenness 🔗 buff.ly/VMZyxc1

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Our study on #mangrove forests and #malaria published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social has received some attention from @bes-forests.bsky.social 🌳 I will present some of the results in the upcoming meeting of the @britishecologicalsociety.org in Birmingham in December. See you there!

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy to have contributed to this study on a new species of gill parasites 🪱 in a collboration of @ucadsenegal.bsky.social with Hasselt University and @ulbruxelles.bsky.social

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#Mangrove forests across 27 African nations do not act as disease breeding grounds as historically believed, showing instead that increased mangrove cover is associated with reduced #malaria prevalence. This insight comes from our new study in Global Change Biology: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Can we fight malaria by protecting nature? 🌿🦟 New research from our Senegal-Belgium collab is flipping the script. doi.org/10.1017/S003... Why? Because healthy mangroves = more fish = natural mosquito control. 🐟

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Available soon! Jeb Byers, April Blakeslee, and myself gently twisted the arms of a few dozen of our brilliant colleagues to put together this new text on "The Ecology and Evolution of Marine Parasites and Disease", should be out in June. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I had a blast attending the 2025 BES Annual Meeting of @britishecologicalsociety.org. I presented our work on the impact of fisheries 🐟 on parasite communities🦠🪱 of mangrove fishes, a collaboration of Hasselt University, @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, @ird-fr.bsky.social, and @uwsafs.bsky.social

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

On my way to Edinburgh today 🚆 for the @britishecologicalsociety.org Annual Meeting 2025 #bes2025 Check out my poster 📃 about fisheries 🐟 and parasite communities 🪱 in mangrove forests 🌿 on Wednesday evening or have a look at the pdf through the official conference App (Whova)

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Another great Dag van de Wetenschap ("Science Day") at Hasselt University yesterday #dvdw 🔬 Thank you everyone from the Aquatic Biodiversity team helping out with our stand and talking about parasites to people of all ages! 🪱🦠 Have a look at the video below: www.linkedin.com/posts/centre...

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#scienceday #environmentalsciences #researchimpact #hasseltuniversity #collaboration #innovation #sustainability | Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMK)

🎬 Thank you for a successful Science Day Yesterday was an inspiring day! Many enthusiastic participants, dedicated researchers and engaged contributors joined us to explore, share and be inspired by ...

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🌍 More mangroves = less malaria 🦟 Greener mangroves = (slightly) more malaria?🌿 Conservation & mosquito control must go together. Read our new preprint 🔗 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #Malaria #Mangroves #Biodiversity

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Day 5 of the 3rd expedition to the Saloum exploring the disease landscape of #mangrove forests affecting humans and fishes, funded by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social in collaboration with Oumar Sadio from @ird-fr.bsky.social. Many fishes and mosquitoes were caught, which we will study further in the lab.

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Presented results on parasite communities in mangrove forests yesterday at the Ichthyoparasitological Symposium in Germany, a collaboration of Hasselt University, ULB, @ird-fr.bsky.social and @uwsafs.bsky.social Thanks to the organisers! @danielg1978.bsky.social @berndsures.bsky.social

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Daniel Grabner @danielg1978.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Discussing talks over a beer at the Ichthyoparasitology meeting organized by @berndsures.bsky.social group at @unidue.bsky.social!

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Thanks @vschpc.bsky.social for the amazing resources that have enabled us to study the evolution of stress responses genes of flatworms parasites

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

(1/5)🦠 Are parasites worth conserving? UHasselt researchers want to hear your opinion! 🧬 👉 Take part in the global conversation: 📊 Fill out the parasite perception survey here: uhasselt.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Are parasites icky or interesting? 🪱 The WASP-P survey (World Archives of Species Perception - Parasites) wants to know what YOU think! Help researchers at Hasselt University to understand public per...

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🚨How does an adaptive radiation of host species affect the stress responses of their parasites? Find out in our paper rdcu.be/d52Q0 in @BMCBiology. Many thanks go to all collaborators involved in this study based in 6 countries to obtain this whole-genome dataset of 11 monogenean species

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Adaptive evolution of stress response genes in parasites aligns with host niche diversity

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Parasite - The Journal @parasitejournal.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Four new species of Cichlidogyrus (Platyhelminthes, Monopisthocotyla, Dactylogyridae) from Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlid fishes, with the redescription of C. bifurcatus and C. longipenis doi.org/10.1051/para...

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Armando J. Cruz-Laufer @ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My first time at #BES2024. I presented our study on malaria prevalence in proximity to mangrove forests. Thanks @britishecolsoc.bsky.social for the organisation of the event and Chelsea Wood, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Maarten Vanhove, and Olexiy Kyrychenko for working on this study with me

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