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Increase of international comparability by DNA-Barcoding

As representatives of a DNA-Barcoding-Initiative in Austria we are often asked for the value of barcoding Austrian individuals in species where DNA-Barcodes from other countries are available. The best answer is given by two papers on moths, recently published by the team around Peter Huemer at the Tiroler Landesmuseum. Some species of leafroller-moths were always regarded to have a holarctic distribution. The enhanced international comparability due to DNA-barcoding allowed experts to reveal them to be species-complexes. With Ancylis christiandiana Huemer & Wiesmair, 2016 one species could be described as new to science, based on individuals from Austria. The same is true for a species of fairy longhorn moths which was found to be a complex of 3 species. Of these, Nemophora scopolii Kozlov, Mutanen, Lee & Huemer, 2016, was likewise described from Austria.

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Gilligan, T., Huemer, P., & Wiesmair, B. (2016). Different continents, same species? Resolving the taxonomy of some Holarctic Ancylis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Zootaxa, 4178(3), 347–370.

Kozlov, M. V., Mutanen, M., Lee, K. M., & Huemer, P. (2016). Cryptic diversity in the long-horn moth Nemophora degeerella (Lepidoptera: Adelidae) revealed by morphology, DNA barcodes and genome-wide ddRAD-seq data. Systematic Entomology

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Pushing the borders in our biodiversity assessment – the first associated projects on plants

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Dear supporters of ABOL!

Complementing our current projects on fungi and animals we are happy to announce the start of two associated projects on DNA-barcoding in plants.

A project at the University of Salzburg, headed by Andreas Tribsch, generates DNA barcodes in spring gentians, a morphologically challenging group. DNA barcodes will allow to identify juvenile plants and hybrids in mixed populations (read more…).
A second project aims to characterise plants via DNA barcoding, focussing on groups prone to undetected, cryptic invasions. The Uni-Docs-project will be carried out by Clemens Pachschwöll at the University of Vienna (read more …).

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Reminder – ABOL meeting 2016

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Dear ABOL community,

we would like to remind you that this years´ABOL meeting will take place on 3rd and 4th of December in the Schlossmuseum Linz. We are pleased to announce an additional talk of Bettina Thalinger (University of Innsbruck). The updated agenda can be downloaded here: Programm ABOL-Tagung 2016

Please register until the 20th of November with an e-mail to Michaela Sonnleitner abol.msonnleitner@gmail.com. We also provide the opportunity to present a poster. In this case please send an abstract until 20th of November.

The small contribution fee of € 15.- you can pay on-site while registering (free for students).

Looking forward to an interesting and lively meeting,

Your ABOL team

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ABOL meeting 2016

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Dear ABOL-partners, dear biodiversity community,

the agenda for this year´s ABOL meeting is ready and can be downloaded here: Programm ABOL-Tagung 2016
The meeting focuses mainly on applied aspects of DNA barcoding.
The meeting starts at the 3rd of December 2016 at 18:00, directly after the NOBIS-meeting (2nd and 3rd of December) with registration and  a conference dinner in the Schlossmuseum in Linz. Thanks to the OÖ Landesmuseum for again hosting our meeting!

We look forward to see you there and ask for poster presentations!

Please register soon with an e-mail to Michaela Sonnleitner abol.msonnleitner@gmail.com to support our planning process
The small contribution fee of € 15.- you can pay on-site while registering (free for students)

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New associated projects dealing with wild bees

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Dear biodiversity community,

Wild bees enjoy increasing awareness in general public, due to several campaigns in the recent past. Austria is known as a biodiversity hotspot of wild bees and many species are especially worthy of protection because of their narrow food spectrum and/or restricted distribution area.

Therefore we are pleased to announce two new associated projects dealing with DNA barcoding of wild bees, which started in the past few weeks.

Read more:
DNA barcoding of selected wild bees
DNA barcoding of wild bees of Vienna

Your ABOL team

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ABOL meeting 2016 – Save the Date!

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Dear ABOL community,

this years´ ABOL meeting will take place on 4th of December again in the Schlossmuseum Linz.
Please save the date!
It will be directly after the NOBIS meeting (2nd & 3rd of December 2016, Schlossmuseum Linz.)

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Heating the worldwide biodiversity hotspot of Protura: Acerentomon christiani n.sp. from the Leopoldsberg, Vienna

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Dear ABOL Community,

It was 2004 when Christian & Szeptycki revealed the Leopoldsberg to be the worldwide biodiversity hotspot of Protura, reporting 23 species from the soil of a very dry slope. Applying DNA barcoding to re-assess the diversity of these very small and blind soil dwellers at the genetic level reported 4 additional species from the same locality, one of which was new to science (Resch et al 2014).

This species named Acerentomon christiani is now formally described in a publication (Shrubovych et al. 2016) including the DNA-Barcode in its description.

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Italienische Schönschrecke (Calliptamus italicus)

Associated project Orthoptera

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Recently a new associated project joined ABOL – DNA barcoding of Central European Orthopterans

A first transnational cooperation between GBOL, SwissBOL and ABOL adresses the genetic diversity of many species of Central European grasshoppers. The project funded by the Verein der Freunde des Naturhistorischen Museums will be extended by further national projects.

Read more…

 

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New content of the ABOL webpage

We want to point out that the ABOL webpage is updated and extended continously. For some time we have started to restructure the website with regard to the future overall project. Major modifications concern the items “About us” and “Project”.
In particular we want to point out the new page “Professional collecting” to be found in the “Experts” menu. It deals with the legal basis for collecting animals, plants and fungi in Austria for scientific purposes. It contains also valuable links to this topic collated by province.
In the near future an internal ABOL forum will be installed for communication within the working groups.
It´s well worth visiting “us” once in a while!

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Austrian Caddisflies

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Just before the end of the old year fortunately a new associated project joined the steadily growing ABOL community.

The project of Dr. Wolfram Graf and colleagues aims at recording of the genetic diversity of the Austrian caddisfly fauna comprising some 310 species. Caddisflies, especially their larval stage, are important bioindicators in freshwater ecology.
Read more…

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