DISCOVERY OF A NEW ANT SPECIES OF THE ELUSIVE TERMITOPHILOUS GENUS METAPONE IN SINGAPORE (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE, MYRMICINAE), WITH THE FIRST DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MALE GENITALIA OF THE GENUS

Discovery of a new ant species of the elusive termitophilous genus Metapone in Singapore (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae), with the first detailed description of male genitalia of the genus

A new species of the rare ant genus Metapone, Metapone murphyi sp.nov., is described based on museum material consisting of a single nest series (workers, queens, and males) collected from a decayed coconut palm stump on Pulau Sakra, previously an offshore island south of mainland Singapore.Workers can be distinguished from other named congeners ma

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Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Modeling Using the Data Mining Models Artificial Neural Network and Boosted Tree

The main purpose of this paper is to present some potential applications of sophisticated data mining techniques, such as artificial neural network (ANN) and boosted tree (BT), for landslide susceptibility modeling in the Yongin area, Korea.Initially, landslide inventory was detected from visual interpretation using digital aerial photographic maps

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Effects of dietary administration of Bacillus probiotics on the non-specific immune responses of tinfoil barb, Barbonymus schwanenfeldii (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)

Background.Probiotics are known as immunostimulants as well as growth and survival promoters in fish, but despite the plethora of studies on the effect of probiotics on the fish non-specific immune responses, very few information Pentair UltraTemp ETi Parts is available for ornemental fish.Thus, this study was carried out to investigate the effects

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