Although many insects successfully live in dangerous environments exposed to diverse
communities of microbes, they are often exploited and killed by specialist pathogens …

Covering: up to the end of 2005Saxitoxin (STX) was discovered early last century and can
contaminate seafood and drinking water, and over time has become an invaluable research …

The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries.
The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves …

Australian education policy for the past 40 years has been heading in the wrong direction
and is entirely unsuitable for preparing young people for the 21st century. Exaggeration …

Grooming is a well-recognized, multipurpose, behavior in arthropods and vertebrates. In this
paper, we review the literature to highlight the physical function, neurophysiological …

Entomopathogenic fungi can invade wide range of insect hosts in the natural world and
have been used as environmentally friendly alternatives to chemical insecticides for pest …

Lower termites express a unique form of eusocial polyphenism in that totipotent workers can
differentiate into either soldier or reproductive caste phenotypes. In this initial effort using …

Entomopathogenic fungus as well as their toxins is a natural threat surrounding social insect
colonies. To defend against them, social insects have evolved a series of unique disease …

The nesting and feeding habits of termites create the risk of contact with microbial and
invertebrate pathogens and parasites. Additionally, termite life history can result in cyclical …

In this paper, we use the development of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
(APST) as an illustrative case to examine how national schooling reforms are assembled in …