Berberis darwinii is an invasive tree species that is considered a serious threat to indigenous ecosystems and biodiversity conservation throughout New Zealand. I examined the recruitment dynamics of this species in order ...

Triclosan (TCS) is a chlorinated organic compound which, due to its antibacterial properties in vitro, has found widespread usages in many medical and consumer products such as textiles, plastics and personal care products. ...

Tuberculosis continues to be a major world health problem, causing more deaths than any other bacterial disease. Long treatment durations using a complex cocktail of drugs are often associated with patient non-adherence ...

Background: Periostin, previously termed Osteoblast-specific factor 2, is an extracellular matrix protein involved in development, stress or injury response, epithelial mesenchymal transition, restructuring of the extracellular ...

Human females, uniquely among primates, develop prominent breasts during puberty, well before reproduction occurs. Adipose tissue in breasts forms part of the "gynoid" fat distribution, involving the hips, thighs, ...

This thesis presents a spatially explicit, agent based simulation, used to explore the ovipositing behaviour of the Small Cabbage White butterfly, Pieris rapae (Lepidoptera). The study concerns the effects of host-plant ...

Material representing 38 species of parasitic Copepoda, Order Caligoida, from New Zealand marine fishes, belonging to 20 genera and six families is discussed. Except for Lepeophtheirus erecsoni Thomson, of which only damaged ...

Type 2 immune responses are generated to provide protection against parasitic helminth infections, however these responses also cause the pathologies associated with allergic inflammation. Studies of the cell types and ...

The global marine environment is currently facing unprecedented anthropomorphic change and stress. One such stressor is plastic pollution, which has continually increased in magnitude since mass production began in the ...

Understanding speciation is one of the great challenges in evolutionary biology as many of the processes involved in speciation, as well as the forces leading to morphological and genetic differentiation, are not fully ...