The paper is based on first results of the EUBORDERSCAPES project supported by the 7thEuropean Framework Programme and revisits a number of major themes and concepts that havebeen important for the development of border studies in recent years. It also investigatesemerging research perspectives that appear to be important drivers of conceptual change fromthe perspective of human...

Modeling of complex systems is commonly confronted with high dimensional set of independent variables. Similarly, econometric models are usually built using time series data that often exhibit nonstationarity due to the impact of some policies and other economic forces. In both cases, linear regression modeling may yield unstable least squares estimates of the regression coeffi cients. Principa...

Examination of 1905 arthropods from a swamp and surrounding pasture in sothern Louisiana revealed larval specimens of Mediorhynchus centurorum in 8 of 228 woodroaches, Parcoblatta pensylvanica, but in no other species. The life cycle was confirmed by feeding eggs of M. centurorum to laboratory-reared woodroaches. Cystacanths later recovered from the woodroaches developed into mature worms when ...

The genus Eunatalis Schenkling, 1909 is taxonomically revised to include twenty-two species. The following species are described as new: Eunatalis auricoma, Eunatalis flavopilosa, Eunatalis foveata, Eunatalis ninae, Eunatalis pernodulosa, Eunatalis punctata, Eunatalis schopfi, Eunatalis spadicea and Eunatalis villosa. Eunatalis blackburni (Waterhouse, 1894), n. syn. is placed in synonymy with E...

We quantified the clonal diversity of the New Zealand marine trematode Maritrema novaezealandensis (n = 1250) within Zeacumantus subcarinatus snail (n = 25) and Macrophthalmus hirtipes crab (n = 25) intermediate hosts using four to six microsatellite loci, and investigated the potential biological and physical factors responsible for the observed genetic patterns. Individual snails harboured on...

We announce the complete genome sequence for Proteus mirabilis strain BB2000, a model system for self recognition. This opportunistic pathogen contains a single, circular chromosome (3,846,754 bp). Comparisons between this genome and that of strain HI4320 reveal genetic variations corresponding to previously unknown physiological and self-recognition differences.

A new genus of Rentoniini, Globorentonium gen. n., is described including three new species: G globulum sp. n. (type species) from Tasmania, Victoria, ACT and southern New South Wales; G lescheni sp. n. from northern New South Wales and G plaumanni sp. n. from southern Brazil. The new genus is compared with other known genera of Rentoniinae, and a key to world genera is provided.