NEW APHIDS FROM OAKS

Current status of New Zealand indigenous aphids

This report summarises our current knowledge of the New Zealand indigenous aphid fauna. Size of fauna. Based on present knowledge, estimates of the size of the New Zealand indigenous aphid fauna range from 12 to 16 species. Six indigenous species have been fully described and named. A further six species are almost certainly indigenous to New Zealand but have not been fully described. There is ...

Aphids

Historically the diverse areas of communication research have rarely met, and this factor probably prompted my feeling that the order of chapter delivery in this book was counter-intuitive. Naturally our investigation of any communication system has always been heavily influenced by our own language, and the historical progress of research has broadly progressed 'down' from humans to other mamm...

From little acorns to tall oaks: from boranes through organoboranes.

Old and new symbiotic partners in lachnine aphids.

The relationship between aphids and their bacterial symbiont, Buchnera aphidicola, is a central model for maternally transmitted symbiosis characterized by long-term evolutionary co-diversification of partners and by genome reduction of the bacterial symbiont. In one clade of aphids, the subfamily Lachninae, genome reduction of Buchnera is extreme and aphid hosts often have adopted additional m...

The White Oaks Laccoliths

About 12 miles to the northeast of Carrizozo lies the “ghost town” of White Oaks. This once thriving mining community rests in a small valley surrounded by three wrinkled and rounded mountain peaks: the remains of a ancient cluster of laccoliths (see attached Figure 1). To the northwest lies Lone Mountain with its associated peak, Baxter Mountain, while to the southeast lies Patos Mountain and ...