The BugWise program has been designed to enable schools, Landcare Groups and land managers to get involved in ecological research. BugWise also provides an opportunity to test new methods of habitat assessment and develop a community focused habitat monitoring tool kit. [Information of the supplier]
This side offers an interactive key which is meant to aid the identification of the non-insect aquatic macroinvertebrates found in the rivers and streams of North Dakota. It is primarily meant to be used by students, citizen groups, and professionals and be useful to implementing a biomonitoring program. This key is not a traditional dichotomous key. It includes many different groups such as snails, daphnia, crayfish, leeches, and oligochaetes. For some of the groups it goes all the way down to species level. Other groups may only go down to the Order, Family or Phylum level (the sponges and flatworms).The key has been based on 7 years of collections carried out by the North Dakota Department of Health and 5 years of collecting carried out by Dr. Andre DeLorme's macroinvertebrate lab at Valley City State University. A list with short biographies of the participating scientists completes the side. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Buglife-The Invertebrate Conservation Trust is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates. The trust pledge itself to saving Britain's rarest little animals, everything from bees to beetles, and spiders to snails. Buglife was registered in December 2000. On the web site presents some conservation projects and campaigns. Furthermore there are sites for young people with activities and general information about invertebrates. Some chosen species were presented as bug of the month with an informative leaf let. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat. Established in 1971, the Society is at the forefront of invertebrate protection worldwide. The programs of Xerces are focused on the protection of pollinator, endangered species, aquatic invertebrates and butterflies. The society publishes the Journal Wings: Essays on Invertebrate Conservation. Additionally on this web site a lot of online resources are downloadable e.g. identification guides and red lists of North American bees, aquatic invertebrates and butterflies. Some groups of invertebrates were presented by short communications. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
I am interested in the structure and evolution of animal genomes, with a particular focus on the genomes of non-model organisms. In my group, we use modern sequencing technologies to generate expressed sequence tag and genome sequence data for non-vertebrates (such as earthworms, nematodes and tardigrades), and analyse these with a variety of bioinformatics tools (including many we have written in house). In particular we are interested in the evolution of operons and trans-splicing in nematodes, the responses of soil invertebrates such as earthworms to heavy metals and pollutants, the origins of gene novelty, the deep phylogeny of animals and the evolution of development in the moulting animals such as tardigrades. We are also developing DNA barcoding techniques to identify meiofauna and other hard-to-identify taxa. We have collaborations with a wide range of colleagues round the world working on beautiful small invertebrates and their evolution. The Blaxter Lab also houses the School of Biological Sciences Sequencing Service, an internationally renowned unit that provides both traditional capillary Sanger sequencing and next generation SOLEXA and 454 sequencing to the University, NERC science and other users. The SBSSS has ABI3730, SOLEXA 1G and 454 GSFLX instrumentation. (from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/biology/people?id=mblaxter&cw_xml=homepage.php) ... [Miscellaneous as indicated]
The Society for Invertebrate Pathology (SIP) was founded in 1967 as an interdisciplinary scientific society that would draw together members from diverse scientific backgrounds under the unified discipline of invertebrate pathology. The objectives as defined in the Society's constitution are Promotion of scientific knowledge of pathology of invertebrate animals and of related subjects through discussions, reports and publications, Stimulation of scientific investigations and their applications, Planning, organization and administration of projects for the advancement of scientific knowledge in invertebrate pathology, the improvement of education and of professional qualifications in invertebrate pathology, and the promotion of international cooperation in achieving the above objectives. ... [Information of the supplier]
The RWC is an open access knowledge base of global scope that offers access to rotifer nomenclature, taxonomy and classification, natural history collections, geographic distribution, environmental data, and bibliography for all currently accepted species-, genus- and family-group names in Phylum Rotifera. It serves as an authoritative source for all 4200+ nominal taxa of genus rank and below, that were named since the start of zoological nomenclature in 1758. It also provides a consistent framework for taxonomic data management; allowing collecting, integrating and arranging of complex future data and knowledge about the group. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and the Cluster of Excellence “Bild Wissen Gestaltung” cordially invite you on behalf of the International Society for Invertebrate Morphology, to attend the 3rd International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology (ICIM 3), to be held in Berlin from 3rd to 7th August 2014. ... [Information of the supplier]
It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 2014 International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control & 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology. The meeting will be held from August 3rd to 7th, 2014 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. We are planning an exciting scientific program to explore the latest findings in invertebrate pathology, including microbial control of insect pests, diseases in beneficial invertebrates, medical and biotechnological significance of entomopathogens, and fundamental scientific research in host-pathogen interactions. ... [Information of the supplier]
It is our pleasure to invite you to attend SIP2015 - the International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control and the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology to be held 9-13 August, 2015 at the University of British Columbia Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As always, the meetings will offer an exciting scientific program exploring the latest findings in invertebrate pathology, including microbial control, diseases of beneficial invertebrates, and advances in fundamental research on host-pathogen interactions. In addition, the satellite symposium ‘Microsporidia in the Animal to Human Food Chain: An International Symposium to Address Chronic Epizootic Disease’ sponsored by the OECD Co-operative Research Programme on Biological Research Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems and SIP will be held on Sunday, 9 August. The SIP meetings will begin on Sunday afternoon with a special half-day workshop organized by the Bacterial Division entitled ‘Regulatory Considerations for the Commercialization of New Insecticidal Proteins’ followed by our customary evening welcoming mixer. ... [Information of the supplier]