We describe a new genus, and a new species, of parasitoid--Tanzawana flavomaculata Watanabe & Kasparyan (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ctenopelmatinae)--based on material collected in Honshu, Japan. As T. flavomaculata is found on Fagineura crenativora Vikberg & Zinovjev, 2000 (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae), a serious pest of beech tree, this parasitoid is an important natural enemy of F. crenativ...

The patchwork watermarking scheme is investigated in this chapter. The performance of this algorithm in terms of imperceptibility, robustness and security has been shown to be satisfactory. Robustness of the patchwork algorithm to the curve-fitting attack and blind multipleembedding attack is presented also in this chapter. Robustness against jitter attack which is a natural enemy of this water...

In their review ‘Arming the enemy: the evolution of resistance to self-proteins’, Bell & Gouyon (2003) present an interesting perspective. They suggest that the introduction of cationic antimicrobial peptide antibiotics into general (clinical) use ‘may provoke the evolution of resistance to our own defence proteins and thus compromise our natural defences against infection’. I feel it is very a...

Natural or synthetic elicitors can affect plant physiology by stimulating direct and indirect defence responses to herbivores. For example, increased production of plant secondary metabolites, a direct response, can negatively affect herbivore survival, development and fecundity. Indirect responses include increased emission of plant volatiles that influence herbivore and natural enemy behaviou...

Department of Fishing and Processing Technology, Faculty of Fisheries, University of Süleyman Demirel, Isparta, Turkey; 2 Departmento de Engenharia Alimentar, Instituto Superior de Engenharia, Universidade do Algarve and Centro de Ciências do Mar CCMar – CIMAR Laboratório Associado, Faro, Portugal; 3 CIMA Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental and Departamento de Engenheria Alimentar, Insti...