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Paul J. De Barro is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research contributions span multiple fields including plant science, agronomy and crop science, insect science, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as insect-plant interactions and control, plant parasitism and resistance, zoonotic diseases and public health, climate change and health impacts, animal disease management and epidemiology, antibiotic use and resistance, and aspects of anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Bulletin of Entomological Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Antibiotics
  • Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
  • Landscape Ecology

Recent papers by Paul J. De Barro include:

  • Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Self-Medication with Antibiotics for Protection against COVID-19: The Role of Psychological Distress, Knowledge of, and Experiences with Antibiotics (2021), published in Antibiotics
  • Landscape factors and how they influence whitefly pests in cassava fields across East Africa (2020), published in Landscape Ecology
  • Within-Season Changes in Land-Use Impact Pest Abundance in Smallholder African Cassava Production Systems (2021), published in Insects
  • Adoption determinants of improved cassava varieties and intercropping among East and Central African smallholder farmers (2024), published in Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paul J. De Barro include:

  • Fang Zhu
  • Wenjing Zhang
  • Sarina Macfadyen
  • Andrew Kalyebi
  • John Colvin

Best Publications

  • Bemisia tabaci: A Statement of Species Status

    Paul J. De Barro;Shu-Sheng Liu;Laura M. Boykin;Adam B. Dinsdale

  • Global threat to agriculture from invasive species

    Dean R. Paini;Andy W. Sheppard;David C. Cook;Paul J. De Barro

  • Global relationships of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) revealed using Bayesian analysis of mitochondrial COI DNA sequences

    Laura M. Boykin;Robert G. Shatters;Rosemarie C. Rosell;Cindy L. McKenzie

  • Species Concepts as Applied to the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci Systematics: How Many Species Are There?

    Shu-sheng Liu;John Colvin;Paul J De Barro

  • Pest Risk Maps for Invasive Alien Species: A Roadmap for Improvement

    Robert C. Venette;Darren J. Kriticos;Roger D. Magarey;Frank H. Koch

  • An extensive field survey combined with a phylogenetic analysis reveals rapid and widespread invasion of two alien whiteflies in China.

    Jian Hu;Paul De Barro;Hua Zhao;Jia Wang

  • Opinion: Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk.

    Moreno Di Marco;Moreno Di Marco;Michelle L. Baker;Peter Daszak;Paul De Barro

  • Phylogenetic relationships of world populations of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) using ribosomal ITS1.

    Paul J De Barro;Felice Driver;John W.H Trueman;John Curran

  • Species delimitation and global biosecurity

    Laura M. Boykin;Karen F. Armstrong;Laura Kubatko;Paul De Barro

  • Matching the origin of an invasive weed for selection of a herbivore haplotype for a biological control programme.

    John A. Goolsby;Paul J. De Barro;Jeffrey R. Makinson;Jeffrey R. Makinson;Robert W. Pemberton

  • Predicting the economic impact of an invasive species on an ecosystem service.

    David C. Cook;David C. Cook;Matthew B. Thomas;Saul A. Cunningham;Denis L. Anderson

  • Transmission specificities of plant viruses with the newly identified species of the Bemisia tabaci species complex.

    Jane E Polston;Paul De Barro;Laura M Boykin

  • A practical guide to identifying members of the Bemisia tabaci species complex: and other morphologically identical species

    Laura M. Boykin;Paul J. De Barro

  • Is agriculture driving the diversification of the Bemisia tabaci species complex (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae)?: Dating, diversification and biogeographic evidence revealed

    Laura M Boykin;Charles D Bell;Gregory Evans;Ian Small

  • Mating behaviour, life history and adaptation to insecticides determine species exclusion between whiteflies.

    David W. Crowder;David W. Crowder;A. Rami Horowitz;Paul J. De Barro;Shu Sheng Liu

  • Will the Real Bemisia tabaci Please Stand Up

    Wee Tek Tay;Gregory A. Evans;Laura M. Boykin;Paul J. De Barro

  • Releasing incompatible males drives strong suppression across populations of wild and Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti in Australia.

    Nigel W Beebe;Nigel W Beebe;Dan Pagendam;Brendan J Trewin;Andrew Boomer

  • Genetic Networking of the Bemisia tabaci Cryptic Species Complex Reveals Pattern of Biological Invasions

    Paul De Barro;Muhammad Z. Ahmed

  • Guidance framework for testing of genetically modified mosquitoes

    Mark Benedict;Mike Bonsall;Anthony A James;Stephanie James

  • A virus and its vector, pepper yellow leaf curl virus and Bemisia tabaci, two new invaders of Indonesia

    Paul J. De Barro;Sri Hendrastuti Hidayat;Don Frohlich;Siti Subandiyah

Frequent Co-Authors

David Cook
David Cook University of Iceland
Darren J. Kriticos
Darren J. Kriticos Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Shu-Sheng Liu
Shu-Sheng Liu Zhejiang University
Matthew B. Thomas
Matthew B. Thomas Pennsylvania State University
Nigel W. Beebe
Nigel W. Beebe University of Queensland
Nancy A. Schellhorn
Nancy A. Schellhorn Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Andy W. Sheppard
Andy W. Sheppard Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Stephen L. Cameron
Stephen L. Cameron Purdue University West Lafayette
Jesús Navas-Castillo
Jesús Navas-Castillo University of Malaga
Iain Walker
Iain Walker University of Melbourne

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