Entrance and verandah, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View to entrance, along timber batten screen to verandah.

North-east verandah connection, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View of underside of verandah corrugated steel roofing, polycarbonate sheeting and north-east glass and floor connection.

Vertical sunshades to south-west elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View of vertical sunshade to south-west elevation with glazing behind.

North-east corner elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View to north-east corner elevation, with entrance stair and timber batten screen to verandah.

Entrance stair, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View to entrance stair as seen from exterior court.

South elevation elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View to south-east elevation with corrugated steel cladding, plywood, concrete block and colonnade, as seen from exterior.

South-east elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View to south-east elevation; entrance stair, plywood and sheet steel cladding and colonnade, as seen from exterior.

Timber batten screen to north-east elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View of timber batten screen to verandah behind and entrance stair, as seen from exterior.

Batten screen to north-east elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View of timber batten screen to north-east elevation with verandah behind.

Screen to verandah, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View of steel-framed timber screen to verandah.

Second floor reading area interior, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View of second floor reading area with rigid frames and air-conditioning ducting.

South-east elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View to south-east elevation as seen from exterior.

North-west elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

North-west elevation as seen from Building K.

Entrance elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View to entrance verandah on north-east elevation and sunshades to north-west elevation.

Replacement of the natural Wolbachia symbiont of Drosophila simulans with a mosquito counterpart

Inherited rickettsial symbionts of the genus Wolbachia occur commonly in arthropods and have been implicated in the expression of parthenogenesis, feminization and cytoplasmic incompatibility phenomena in their respective hosts. Here we use purified Wolbachia from the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, to replace the natural infection of Drosophila simulans by means of embryonic microinjection techniques. The transferred Wolbachia infection behaves like a natural Drosophila infection with regard to its inheritance, cytoskeleton interactions and ability to induce incompatibility when crossed with uninfected flies. The transinfected flies are bidirectionally incompatible with all other naturally infected strains of Drosophila simulans, however, and as such represent a unique crossing type. The successful transfer of this symbiont between distantly related hosts suggests that it may be possible to introduce this agent experimentally into arthropod species of medical and agricultural importance in order to manipulate natural populations genetically.