Although many cancers are associated with infectious agents (Ewald and Swain Ewald 2015), only four naturally occurring transmissible cancers have so far been identified in dogs, soft-shell clams and Tasmanian devils (DFT1 and DFT2) (Pye et al. 2015). The recent discovery of DFT2 (Pye et al. 2015) provides an intriguing story to the evolution of transmissible cancers and poses several questions:

ABSTRACT The Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS) is an ongoing high-completeness, deep spectroscopic survey of ∼60 000 galaxies to Y < 21.2 mag, over ∼6 deg2 in three well-studied extragalactic fields: D10 (COSMOS), D02 (XMMLSS), and D03 (ECDFS). Numerous DEVILS projects all require consistent, uniformly derived state-of-the-art photometric data with which measure galaxy pr...

Patterns of spatial variation of mercury and methylmercury (MeHg) were examined in sediments and muscle tissue of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) from Amistad International Reservoir, a large and hydrologically complex subtropical water body in the Rio Grande drainage. The distributions of both Hg and MeHg were compared with environmental and biological factors known to influence produc...

We show that the dust devil parameterisation in use in most Mars Global Circulation Models (MGCMs) results in an unexpectedly high level of dust devil activity during morning hours. Prior expectations of the diurnal variation of Martian dust devils are based mainly upon the observed behaviour of terrestrial dust devils: i.e. that the majority occur during the afternoon. We instead find that lar...

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