Although it is widely recognised that America was the last continent to be populated by our species, researchers’ views on various aspects of this process (e.g. the period in which it occurred, the area from which the colonizing populations came, the number of dispersal waves and the routes taken by these migrations) differ significantly. In this paper, we review both classical data and more re...

The engineering and testing of genes that result in refractory phenotypes are important components of the continuing effort towards the use of population replacement strategies for vector control. Both ‘endogenous’ and ‘synthetic’ refractory phenotypes are being considered. Additional research is required to determine the prevalence of such phenotypes in the various vector–pathogen combinations...

  Length composition data (fork length) of kawakawa (Euthynnus affinis ), landed between April 2003 to March 2005 in Coastal Waters of Hormozgan province in Iran ( Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman) , were monthly used to estimate the p opulation parameters and for the assessment of the stock. The growth parameters of von Bertalanffy equation were estimated as L∞: 87.66 cm, K: 0.51 per year and t0: ...

The use of sequence alignments for establishing protein homology relationships has an extensive tradition in the field of bioinformatics, and there is an increasing desire for more statistical methods in the data analysis. We present statistical methods and algorithms that are useful when the protein alignments can be divided into two populations based on known features or traits. The algorithm...

The metabolic capabilities of microbes are the basis for many major biotechnological advances, exploiting microbial diversity by selection or engineering of single strains. However, there are limits to the advances that can be achieved with single strains, and attention has turned toward the metabolic potential of consortia and the field of synthetic ecology. The main challenge for the syntheti...

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Lotka-Volterra population biology models are important models that describe the interaction between various biological species considered as predator-prey system. This work describes a Lotka-Volterra population biology model with negative feedback. We show that for this biological model, the predator and prey species have stable coexistence. Then we shall propose ecological monitoring of the po...