Welcome to the 11th International Polychaete Conference being held in Sydney, Australia in 2013. The conference will be held at the Australian Museum, commencing on the afternoon of Sunday 4th August through to Friday 9th August 2013. The Organising committee is soliciting images from previous meetings which we will play during the opening Ice Breaker and Conference Dinner. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 11th International Symposium on Enchytraeidae (ISE) will take place at "Haus Ohrbeck" in Georgsmarienhütte near Osnabrück, Germany, July 25-27, 2014. Enchytraeids or 'potworms' are small relatives of earthworms distributed worldwide. Most of the species are soil-dwelling but some live in aquatic sediments. The symposium has a traditional focus on taxonomy and applied soil ecology, but actually it covers all aspects of the biology of enchytraeids, including developmental biology, physiology, phylogeny, and ecotoxicology. The symposium intends to be an occasion to share and to discuss new findings and views about these interesting worms while promoting a friendly interaction among experts, newcomers, or any other kind of participant. The symposia are held every two years since 1994 and they include talks, posters, and a taxonomic workshop. A peer-reviewed Proceedings volume, the "Newsletter on Enchytraeidae" is published usually within less than one year. Further information on abstract submission, travel, room & board, and programme will be sent around shortly. You may submit suggestions regarding topics, schedule and focus any time. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 13th International Polychaete Conference will take place on 4-9 August 2019, on board the famous ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary, in Long Beach, California. [Information of the supplier]
We invite you to participate in the 13th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta - ISAO 2015, which will convene at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic, 7-11 September 2015. At this university the great oligochaetologist Sergěj Hrabě conducted his remarkable work on Oligochaeta.
Join us in Hirosaki, Japan 10-14 September 2018 for the 14th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta. Since the 2015's excellent ISAO13 Symposium in Bruno, we have been working to prepare for the next Symposium, in 2018. We are delighted to announce the initial details here. The Symposium will be held at the University Conference Hall in the 50th Anniversary Auditorium, which is at Bunkyo-cho Campus of the Hirosaki University, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 15th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaetes (ISAO15) will be held in Brussels, Belgium, September 19-24, 2022. The topics addressed at this conference will focus on anything that can improve the knowledge of aquatic oligochaetes in the broadest sense, i.e. including Branchiobdellida, Acanthobdellida and Hirudinida. Among these, we can cite the following: Applied ecology (assessment, rarity, conservation value): Marine ecology (biology); Ecotoxicology (bioassays, laboratory culture); Biology (population dynamics, reproduction); Morphology (internal and external structures); Taxonomy (phylogeny and systematics); Biogeography (biodiversity and distribution mechanisms); Application in management (sludge ecology); New methods and techniques. ... [Information of the supplier]
In response to the ‘Biodiversity Crisis’ and the ‘Taxonomic Impediment’, the aim of this publication is to make available, online, information about ecology and taxonomy of diverse groups of megadrile earthworms, information that is currently scattered, outdated, or otherwise unavailable. This goal complements those advocated by groups such as BioNet, CBD (GTI), Diversitas, GBIF, IUCN/SSG, Wikispecies, ZipcodeZoo and Zoobank. Presentation is a series of discrete chapters in various formats as originally prepared. Several species checklists (partially annotated) provide an invaluable resource for young researchers needing to construct comprehensive faunal lists for a region, for managers or concerned scientists wishing to research answers to simple questions, such as: "What is the correct and current name of this species?" "How's our regional biodiversity?" “Can I add yet another new species name to this group without a full inventory?” ... [Information of the supplier]
Earthworms are essential to the life and health of the planet's soils, and thus to the life and health of terrestrial ecosystems. Charles Darwin and others have shown that earthworms both make soil, and ensure its fertility. Lumbricus rubellus is a common earthworm, found in many temperate ecosystems, used as a model species by researchers investigating the biology and ecology of the soil, and the effects of pollutants and other chemicals on soil organisms. This website is the home of our efforts to better understand how Lumbricus rubellus and other soil animals "make their living". We are sequencing the genome of Lumbricus rubellus. This will be the first oligochaete annelid genome to be sequenced. The genome sequence will reveal the 'parts list' for this important species, and help us to put together maps of how the worm grows, eats, and reproduces, and how it resists exposures to potentially toxic soil contamination. To do this we are using the resources, instrumentation and expertise of the GenePool, the University of Edinburgh Genomics Facility. The genome sequencing project builds on the successful Lumbricus rubellus Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) transcriptome project. ESTs are a way of sampling the expressed genes of a species, and we, as part of The EcoWorm Consortium gained funding from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) generate of over 20,000 ESTs. Using a combination of informatics tools these sequences have been analysed and used to build a relational sequence database - LumbriBASE - that can be queried by both sequence similarity and annotation. We have added ESTs from additional annelid species to LumbriBASE to make cross-comparison between species easier. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 14th International Polychaete Conference will take place in Stellenbosch, South Africa, hosted by the University of Stellenbosch. [Information of the supplier]
We present here an introduction to the Second Edition of Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica – A catalogue of names, descriptions and type specimens of the Oligochaeta – Editio Secunda [N.O.2] in a web-based, navigable format. This Second Edition of Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica [N.O.2] updates (Addenda Editioni Primae)and corrects(Corrigenda Editioni Primae) the generic, subgeneric, specific, and infra-specific names of oligochaetes published to date. We have integrated the accounts included in N.O. (Reynolds and Cook, 1976) with those presented in the three supplements – N.O.S.P.(Reynolds and Cook, 1981), N.O.S.S. (Reynolds and Cook, 1989), and N.O.S.T. (Reynolds and Cook, 1993). We have also updated accounts and their associated information, added accounts for new taxa described since the publication of N.O.S.T. in 1993, and expanded the Index Auctorum, Index Auctoritatum, Index Museorum, Glossarium, and References sections of the original N.O. series. ... [Information of the supplier]