Individual hosts differ extensively in their competence for parasites, but traditional research
has discounted this variation, partly because modeling such heterogeneity is difficult. This …

Brought to Australia in 1935 to control agricultural pests (from French Guiana, via Martinique,
Barbados, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Hawai'i), repeated stepwise translocations of small …

Among the many anthropogenic changes that impact humans and wildlife, one of the most
pervasive but least understood is light pollution. Although detrimental physiological and …

Invasive species often evolve rapidly following introduction despite genetic bottlenecks that
may result from small numbers of founders; however, some invasions may not fit this “genetic …

Chemical grouping and read-across are frequently used non-animal alternatives for filling
toxicological data gaps. When grouping chemicals, it is critical to define the applicability …

The number of known fungal proteins capable of switching between alternative stable
conformations is steadily increasing, suggesting that a prion-like mechanism may be broadly …

The Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, Inc. (RIFM) has evaluated safety data for
fragrance materials for 55 years. The safety assessment of Natural Complex Substances (NCS) …

… Consistent with the ERH, many species of bacteria, protozoan, and metazoan parasites of
cane toads have been left behind in the native range (Selechnik, Rollins, Brown, Kelehear, & …

Understanding the mechanisms allowing invasive species to adapt to novel environments is
a challenge in invasion biology. Many invaders demonstrate rapid evolution of behavioural …

Cane toads (Rhinella marina) are notoriously successful invaders: from 101 individuals brought
to Australia in 1935, poisonous toads now cover an area >1.2 million km 2 with adverse …