Just wanted to let you know that the following paper has been published. It is open access and can be downloaded from the journal’s website. It comes with an interactive type locality map.
Update on Magelonidae
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New paper on polychaetes
Color morphs of Aponuphis species (Borisova et al. 2018)
We congratulate our guest student Polina from Moscow State University with her first publication based on studies of the MIWA material in our collections. The paper describes species complexes of the genus Aponuphis from the West Afircan coast and analyses their relationships from mitochondrial sequences.
P.B. Borisova, D.M. Schepetov, N.E. Budaeva (2018) Aponuphis Kucheruk, 1978 (Annelida: Onuphidae) from western African waters. Invertebrate Zoology 15(1): 19–41. Reprint requests can be directed to Dr. Budaeva, E-mail: nataliya.budaeva@uib.no
IBOL 2017
We contributed posters and speed talks at the 7th International Barcode of Life Conference in Krüger Park, South Africa, November 20-24. dnabarcodes2017.org.
Katrine, Jon, Tom, and Lloyd attended the meeting with presentations of our MIWA work. Here is Katrine’s picture on Twitter of Lloyd when giving his talk on the Glyceriformia worms.
Abstracts from the the presentations are published in Genome 60(11) https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2017-0178
New paper on brittle star
Amphiura ungulata paper in ZOOTAXA
Colleagues Sabine Stöhr and Øydis Alme have published their study of Amphiura ungulata In a recent issue of Zootaxa (http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3994.3.6). This West African brittle star has an unusual development of the arms and looks somewhat strange in the juvenile condition.
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Twinkle, twinkle, brittle star. How I wonder what you are –
The brittle stars are a fascinating group of animals with about 2000 known species. Quite a few species have been identified from the MIWA material and we are trying to compare the African shelf fauna with that of the northern Atlantic. Initial DNA-barcoding has returned some puzzling results and we needed another look on some of the problematic individuals. Fortunately, two researchers with very special knowledge of the brittle stars were able to join us in an identification workshop during the last week of November.
Øyidis Alme did her master study on brittle stars and she was joined by Sabine Stöhr from the Natural History Museum of Stockholm for a three days session over the microscopes. Sabine is a respected specialist on the brittle stars and maintains The World Ophiuroidea Database:
http://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/index.php
MIWA workshop gets publicity in Barcode Bulletin
Barcode Bulletin is the Newsletter of the International Barcode of Life (IBOL). Last summer’s NIWA workshop in Bergen is mentioned in Barcode Bulletin Vol. 4, No. 2 – December 2013
JRS Biodiversity Foundation has launched new web site
JRS is supporting biodiversity research projects and training particularly in developing countries. JRS is a very important sponsor of the MIWA project. JRS grantees have separate web pages in the presentation of the grant portfolio.
MIWAs page is here: http://jrsbiodiversity.org/grant/university-of-bergen-museum/
Presentation at CCLME meeting in Dakar, September 2013
List of sampling stations
Access list of sampling stations with map in Google.
Click the link and select “Map of Latitude” to view map. Select “Satellite” for satellite image. Use filter to include or exclude data.
Workshop summary of Crustacea
The crustacea work-group focused particularly on crabs and shrimps. Some of the hermit crabs, a particularly difficult group, were also identified to species. A few species of squat lobsters, slipper lobsters, and five species of mantis shrimp were also identified. Three 95 sample plates were prepared for DNA-barcoding.