A New Oryssid From Chatham Islands, Bismarck Archipelago

Small islands in the big picture: the formative period of Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago

A new shrub frog in the genus Platymantis (Ceratobatrachidae) from the Nakanai Mountains of eastern New Britain Island, Bismarck Archipelago.

We describe a new-species of high elevation rainforest shrub frog (genus Platymantis) from the Nakanai Mountains of eastern New Britain (Bismarck Archipelago), Papua New Guinea. The distinctive new species possesses a moderate body size (29.5-32.2 mm in four males), widely expanded finger and toe disks, smooth to slightly granular dorsal skin, low but distinctly protuberant supraocular and tars...

From multiple pathogenicity islands to a unique organized pathogenicity archipelago

Pathogenicity islands are sets of successive genes in a genome that determine the virulence of a bacterium. In a growing number of studies, bacterial virulence appears to be determined by multiple islands scattered along the genome. This is the case in a family of seven plant pathogens and a human pathogen that, under KdgR regulation, massively secrete enzymes such as pectinases that degrade pl...

The New Computing Archipelago: Intranet Islands of Practice

In this paper, we examine the growth of grass roots intranets as an extension of end-user computing. This perspective helps to characterize the nature of intranet development and use as " islands of practice, " and provides a background against which the rapid proliferation of organizational intranets in the 1990's can be compared and contrasted with the explosion of personal computers and " is...

Forbes' parakeet (Cyanoramphus forbesi) population on Mangere Island, Chatham Islands