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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • March 2, 2005
    An article by Jo Best:

    ``The way viruses spread on the Internet is helping ecologists decipher how pests move in the real world.

    ``Jim Muirhead and Hugh MacIsaac, ecologists at the University of Windsor in Ontario, have been using network theory to work out how the Russian spiny water flea will travel through Canada's lakes.

    ``According to the two ecologists' theory, the lakes are akin to interconnected nodes in a network, with some open to infection by computer viruses--or, in this case, the spiny water flea. The spread of the water flea by boats and other craft mimics the spread of viruses by e-mail, the theory states, and can help the scientists identify which lakes are likely to become infection hubs from which the flea will spread.''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5596218.html

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