(i.e., East Anacapa and Santa Barbara Islands) or high prevalence (i.e., San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands). Future studies comparing longterm dynamics on islands and related mainlands are needed to examine the possibility that insular systems provide unique opportunities to understand the factors affecting pathogen dynamics and human risk. Given the substantial variation in mouse population de...

1 Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (NOAA Fisheries), Honolulu, HI, United States, 2 Office of Protected Resources (NOAA Fisheries), Silver Spring, MD, United States, 3 College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, 4 Southeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA Fisheries), Miami, FL, United States, 5 Oceans Program, Leonardo DiCaprio...

Experiments on seven vertebrates suggest that identifying the locations of islands of non-methylated DNA provides more insights into evolutionarily-conserved epigenetic regulatory elements than studies of CpG islands.

The prevalence of different antimicrobial resistance profiles and variants of the Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) was reported for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium DT104 strains isolated from patients in Denmark. Variation in antimicrobial resistance and corresponding changes of SGI1 were shown among isolates from a foodborne outbreak.

The Maltese Islands are a group of small islands in the central Mediterranean, of which two are inhabited. Malta had a population in 1938 of 242,885, and Gozo then had 25,783 inhabitants. The islands are small: the largest Malta, is 94-87 square miles in area, and Gozo, 26-97 square miles.1 The islands were not occupied during the Second World War, but they were subjected to ferocious bombings ...

Isolation is a driving factor of species richness and other island community attributes. Most empirical studies have investigated the effect of isolation measured as distance to the nearest continent. Here we expanded this perspective by comparing the explanatory power of seventeen isolation metrics in sixty-eight variations for vascular plant species richness on 453 islands worldwide. Our obje...

Beagle, a Royal Navy surveying ship, he was an inexperienced, 23-yearold gentleman naturalist. He returned as one of the rising scientific stars of his generation. Many of Darwin’s experiences on this trip shaped his thinking, but none was more influential than the five weeks he spent in the Galapagos Islands. Since Darwin’s time, research on islands has continued to advance the understanding o...

We present an experimental investigation of the role of resumptive pronouns. We investigate object extraction in wh-questions for a range of syntactic configurations (non-islands, weak islands, strong islands) and for multiple levels of embedding (single, double, and triple). In order to establish the crosslinguistic properties of resumption, parallel experiments are conducted in three language...