From BIOSCI-REQUEST Tue Mar 5 08:45:32 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA25032; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:45:32 -0800 Received: from carina.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (carina.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE [131.173.128.25]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA24964; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:45:17 -0800 Received: from cipfb5.biologie.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (cipfb5.biologie.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE [131.173.28.3]) by carina.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA18800 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:42:30 +0100 Received: from CIPFB5/SpoolDir by cipfb5.biologie.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 5 Mar 96 17:42:20 Received: from SpoolDir by CIPFB5 (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 5 Mar 96 17:41:55 From: "Christoph Meyer" Organization: Biologie Uni Osnabrueck To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:41:46 GMT Subject: search for material of >Sternaspis< X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Christoph Meyer" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Message-ID: Dear colleages, in my masterwork I am working on the ultrastructure of some specimen of the genus _Sternaspis_ from Thailand. But in the determination of the specimens I have some problems because several of the descriptions cited in literature overlap. Therfore I am looking for some typematerial or paratypes of any species of this genus. I will be very thankful for any reference where from I can loan type- or paramaterial. Also hints for little known literature in which the genus _Sternaspis_ is described are welcome. Many thanks for your support Christoph Meyer ________________________________________________ Christoph Meyer Universitaet Osnabrueck FB 5 - Spezielle Zoologie Barbarastr. 11 D-49069 Osnabrueck e-mail: cmeyer@cipfb5.biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de tel. +49-(0)541-969-2859 fax +49-(0)541-969-2870 From BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Mar 6 08:32:32 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA27899; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:32:32 -0800 Received: from ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.2]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA27846; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:32:04 -0800 X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:28:38 +0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=uni-kiel/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:30:14 +0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=uni-kiel/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 18:23:19 +0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=uni-kiel/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 18:23:18 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 18:23:18 +0100 X400-Originator: ks@sfb313.uni-kiel.d400.de X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=uni-kiel/ADMD=d400/C=de/;<9603061723.AA12412@piggy.sfb313] X400-Content-Type: P2-1984 (2) Content-Identifier: other 'marine... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed From: " (Klaus Schnack)" Message-ID: <9603061723.AA12412@piggy.sfb313.uni-kiel.d400.de> To: " (Annelida Listserver)" Subject: other 'marine' mailing lists X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL2] Hi, maybe you will be interested in some other 'marine' mailing lists... Tschau Klaus ,,, (o o) ----------------oOO-(_)-OOo------------------------------- Klaus Schnack ks@sfb313.uni-kiel.de ---------------------------------------------------------- Here follows the excerpt of a compilation of aquatic environment mailing lists, kindly set by Ms Kylie Hall and forwarded by Eric Baran LISTS WHICH HAVE A MARINE, OCEANS OR COASTAL FOCUS: ****************************************************** ABNET, is an abalone aquaculture network To subscribe, send a command to the listserver: listserver@uct.ac.za with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe abnet To post to the list, the address is: abnet@uct.ac.za In order to receive general information about ABNET, send a message to the listserver with the command: information abnet ALGAE-L, is a botanical discussion run by the University College, Dublin, Ireland. To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie with the following message in the body of the text: sub algae-l To send a message to the list, the address is: algae-l@irlearn.ucd.ie ACZISC, is the Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee (ACZISC) mailing list. The ACZISC is a committee of government and non-government organizations set up to promote the coordination of coastal zone initiatives regarding the information management. To subscribe, send a message to: Majordomo@hed.bio.dfo.ca with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe aczisc To post to the list, the address is: aczisc@hed.bio.dfo.ca AQUA-L, is a list for discussion of aquaculture of all types, based at the University of PEI. The purpose of the list is to promote discussion amongst individuals interested in the science, technology and business of rearing aquatic species. To subscribe, send a message to: listproc@upei.ca with the following text in the body of the message: sub aqua-l BALTSEA (Forum for Baltic Sea Science) To join just send subscribe baltsea Your Name in the message body of an email to listserv@searn.sunet.se BALTSEA owner is Soren Floderus BRINE-L, is a brine-shrimp discussion group. This list doesn't seem to have much traffic - To subscribe to this list, send an e-mail message to: listserv@uga.bitnet (or listserv@uga.cc.uga.edu). To send a message to the list, send mail to: brine-l@uga.cc.uga.edu. CMPAN (California Marine Protected Areas Network) (pronounced simpan), is a discussion group to facilitate information exchange about Marine Protected Areas (e.g. National Parks, National Marine Sanctuaries, Marine Refuges, Marine Reserves, Ecological Preserves, etc.). The listserv is operated by California Sea Grant Extension Program Marine Advisors Deborah McArdle (Santa Barbara County Office, e-mail: damcardle@ucdavis.edu) and Rick Starr (Santa Cruz/Monterey County Office, e-mail: starr@mlml.calstate.edu). To subscribe, send a message to: listproc@ucdavis.edu with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe cmpan COASTNET, is a coastal management conference to discuss National and International Coastal Management issues. This forum encourages dialog on coastal management issues from all nations. To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@uriacc.uri.edu (or listserv@uriacc.bitnet) with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe coastnet To send a message to all of the people currently subscribed to the list, send mail to coastnet@uriacc.uri.edu COASTGIS, is a list for people interested in using GIS for coastal zone science and/or management. To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie with the following test in the body of the message: subscribe coastgis To send a message to the list, the address is: coastgis@irlearn.ucd.ie CONSGIS, is a biological conservation and GIS e-mail discussion list. To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@uriacc.uri.edu with the following text in the body of the message: sub consgis To send mail to the list, the address is: consgis@uriacc.uri.edu CTURTLE, is a sea turtle biology and conservation list. The list owner / contact is: To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (bitnet: listserv@nervm) with the following text in the body of the message: sub cturtle To send mail to the list, the address is: cturtle@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (bitnet: cturtle@nervm) CORAL-LIST, is a coral discussion list produced by the Coral Health and Monitoring Program (CHAMP). To subscribe, send an e-mail message to: majordomo@reef.aoml.noaa.gov with the following text (only) in the body of the message: subscribe coral-list The Home Page may be found at URL: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov CRUST-L, is a crustacean discussion group. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to: listserv@sivm.si.edu with the following text (only) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE CRUST-L Crustacean systematics, distribution, ecology CZM, is the Coastal Zone Management mailing list, maintained by Bill Silvert. It is for exchanging information about Coastal Zone Management with emphasis on how to incorporate scientific advice in the process. To subscribe, send a message to: Lists@scotia.dfo.ca with the following message in the body of the text: subscribe czm To send a message to the list, the address is: czm@biome.bio.dfo.ca DEEPSEA, is a list for the discussion of deep sea and vent news. Its purpose is to serve the world's community of deep sea and hydrothermal vent biologists. The list owner / contact is: Andrew McArthur To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@uvvm.uvic.ca with the following text in the body of the message: sub deepsea To send mail to the list, the address is: deepsea@uvvm.uvic.ca DIATOM-L, is a list for discussion of research on the diatom algae. To subscribe, send a message to listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu with the following text in the body of the message: sub diatom-l To send mail to th entire list, the address is: ecs-news@mailbase.ac.uk EIM, is a discussion list for Environmental Interactions of Mariculture To subscribe send a message to: Lists@scotia.dfo.ca (or Majordomo@biome.bio.ns.ca) with the following text (only) in the body of the message: subscribe eim To send a message to the list: eim@biome.bio.dfo.ca ELASMO-L, is a shark biology list produced by the American Elasmobranch Society for more technical research on sharks, rays, and chimeras. Elasmo-l operates under the PMDF MAILSERV facility. It is not a listserv mailing list, and the usual listserv commands will not work. To subscribe to elasmo-l, send an email essage to: elasmo-l-request@umassd.edu with the following text in the body of the message: Subscribe elasmo-l A successful subscription will result in a confirmatory message being sent. EMIN-L (Newsforum for PhD students and postdocs in marine sciences). EMIN-L= is the news and discussion forum of the European Marine Interdisciplinary= Network (EMIN). The purpose of EMIN is to bring together young= postgraduates in marine sciences, so as to broaden their scope of interest,= to update their knowledge, and to develop their relationships. The interest= of the members include amongst others marine biology, fisheries, marine= chemistry and geology, meteorology, oceanography, marine ecotoxicology and= modelling. Subscribe by sending subscribe EMIN-L your name to listserv@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl EMIN-L owner is Erik-jan Malta . Co-owners are Soren= Floderus and Monique de Bie FISHERIES, is the fisheries discussion list which includes both biological and social sciences. It is for general discussion of fisheries- related issues, including stock dynamics and fisheries management, and is maintained by Bill Silvert. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to: Majordomo@biome.bio.dfo.ca with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe fisheries To send a message to the network, the address is: fisheries@scotia.dfo.ca or fisheries@biome.bio.dfo.ca OCEAN-F, is the ocean farmers of America forum, run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with the following text in the body of the message: sub oceanf-l OCEAN-F, is an e-mail forum of the Ocean Farmers of America. It is to support the open exchange of ideas and information on 1) The engineering of ocean farming systems for survivability, economy, and improved productivity, 2) Mechanisms to encourage fishermen to expand into ocean farming, 3) Biological, husbandry, and environmental issues associated with ocean farming at exposed sites, 4) Regulation and ownership of ocean farms and the associated biological inventory in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. To sign up send e-mail to: listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with the message: sub oceanf-l OCEAN-L, is a forum for the discussion of oceanologia. To send a message to the group, the address is: OCEANO-L@IBM.UFSC.BR OCEANTECH, is Scripps Institution of Oceanography's ocean technology forum. It is an international informal computer conference for discussion of applied technology-related topics in freshwater, marine, and brackishwater environments. Conference membership is open to all interested parties. The contact is: Kevin Hardy , To subscribe, send mail to: listserv@ucsd.edu with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe oceantech To send mail to the list, the address is: oceantech@ucsd.edu PHYCOTOXINS, is a Phycotoxins discussion list. To subscribe send a message to Lists@scotia.dfo.ca with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe phycotoxins To send a message to the list: phycotoxins@biome.bio.dfo.ca RECFISH, is a mailing list for government and academic workers with an interest in recreational fishing in Australia, which has been established by the Victorian Fisheries Research Institute. To subscribe to this list, sending a message to: majordomo@msl.oz.au with the following text (only) in the body of the message: subscribe recfish RESECON, To subscribe send a message to: listproc@ukcc.uky.edu with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe resecon To send mail to the list: resecon@ukcc.uky.edu SCUBA, is a discussion list featuring SCUBA and skin diving. Topics include illnesses of a diver, dangers under water, equipment of diving, diving sites all around the world, etc. Either English or Turkish languages may be used on this list. The list owner / contact is: Gokhan Boybek To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@cc.itu.edu.tr with the following text in the body of the message: sub scuba To send mail to the group the address is: scuba@cc.itu.edu.tr SCUBA-D, is the digest of the Usenet rec.scuba newsgroup. The list owners / contacts are: Catherine Yang and Nick Simicich To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@brownvm.brown.edu with the following text in the body of the message: sub scuba-d To join the discussion, the address is: scuba-d@brownvm.brown.edu SCUBA-L, is a scuba diving mailing list for discussion of all aspects of SCUBA diving. The list owner / contact is: Catherine Yang To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@brownvm.brown.edu with the following text in the body of the message: sub scuba-l To send mail to the discussion, the address is: scuba-l@brownvm.brown.edu SEASHEPHERD, is the Sea Shepherd electronic mailing list. The Sea Shepherd is involved in several campaigns, including the fight against whaling, dolphin slaughter, drift nets and seal killing. This is a volunteer, information collection and distribution service, for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and related issues. The list owner / contact is: Nick Voth , To subscribe, send a message to: dcasmedic@aol.com with the following text in the body of the message: sub seashepherd SEAGRASS_FORUM, is a global e-mail discussion list for the discussion of all aspects of seagrass research, biology and the ecology of seagrass ecosystems. The list owner is Mike van Keulen, To subscribe to the list, send a message to: majordomo@essun1.murdoch.edu.au with the the following text (only) in the body of the message: subscribe seagrass_forum SEAFOOD, is a list for discussion about seafood safety, especially issues such as HACCP programs and training. To subscribe, send a message to: listproc@ucdavis.edu with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe seafood To send mail to the list, the address is: seafood@ucdavis.edu SHARK-L, is a shark biology list aimed at serious amateurs, although several biologists participate. To subscribe to the list, send a message to: listserv@utcvm.utc.edu with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe shark-l . To send a message to the list, the address is: shark-l@utcvm.utc.edu SHELLFISH, is a discussion list managed by the National Shellfisheries Association (U.S) which covers shellfish culture and related issues. To subscribe to this list, send a subscription request to: shellfish-request@kenyon.edu with the following text (only) in the body of the message: subscribe Messages for distribution are sent to shellfish@kenyon.edu STARNET, is an echinoderm newsletter distributed quarterly. The list owner / contact is: Win Hide To subscribe, send mail to: whide@matrix.bchs.uh.edu with the following text in the body of the message: sub starnet To send mail to the list, the address is: star@matrix.bchs.uh.edu STURGEON, is a mail group discussing sturgeon. To subscribe, send a message to: listproc@ucdavis.edu with the following message in the body of the text: subscribe sturgeon The list address, to send mail to all subscribers is: sturgeon@ucdavis.edu WILDNET, is a mailing list which was established in 1987 for the exchange of ideas, questions, and solutions in the area of fisheries and wildlife computing and statistics. To get your name added to or removed from the list, contact the administrator: Eric Woodsworth, ( "Subscriptions" address: wildnet-request@tribune.usask.ca) To submit mail to the list send your message to: wildnet@tribune.usask.ca Note: Please send requests for addition/deletion, etc, to the "Subscriptions" address, not to the "Submissions" address. ************************************* It is important to remember that commands are posted in the first line of your message, and not in the subject field (you can leave it blank). Some of the common commands are SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE,HELP, INFO, LIST, WHICH, WHO, INDEX, GET, and END. Remember to turn off your signature when sending commands. Use these lists wisely- please avoid unrelated traffic, advertisments, and personal messages!! The "LISTS GLOBAL" command can be used with Listservs. Sending this message to a Listserv will instruct the Listserv to send you a list of all the discussion groups that it is aware of in the world. Remember to send this command to the Listserv, and not to the discussion group. Thus you could send the message "LISTS GLOBAL" to LISTSERV@AMERICAN.EDU Be prepared for some large responses, as there are thousands of discussion groups in the world. You could then perform a search for keywords. Another place to get information on listservs on all topics is the WWW site: http://www.tile.net/tile/listserv/index.html The Australian Society for Fish Biology, for whom was compiled the lists, is now on the www. The lists (including lists of fisheries related web sites and coming fisheries conferences) are at the URL http://www.scu.edu.au/ressci/asfb/ Information mainly provided by : Kylie Hall Editor, Australian Society for Fish Biology Newsletter C/- Central Fish Ageing Facility Victorian Fisheries Research Institute PO Box 114 Queenscliff Victoria 3226 Australia From BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Mar 6 10:17:47 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA12608; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:17:47 -0800 Received: from mailgate1.uea.ac.uk (mailgate1.uea.ac.uk [139.222.230.1]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA12471; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:17:17 -0800 Received: from cpca6.uea.ac.uk by mailgate1.uea.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:03:39 +0000 Received: from cpca5.uea.ac.uk by cpca6.uea.ac.uk; (5.65/1.1.8.2/29Jun95-0305PM) id AA30379; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:03:36 GMT Received: by cpca5.uea.ac.uk; (5.65/1.1.8.2/28Mar95-1216PM) id AA03648; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:03:35 GMT Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:03:35 +0000 (GMT) From: "V.Degas" X-Sender: u9539085@cpca5.uea.ac.uk To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: preserving pygospio Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Could anybody tell me the best way of preserving Pygospio elegans without damaging the antennae? Valerie. Degas Valerie School of biological sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR47TJ England E-MAIL:V.Degas@cpca2.uea.ac.uk From BIOSCI-REQUEST Thu Mar 7 19:21:16 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA25046; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 02:20:15 -0800 Received: from mailgate1.uea.ac.uk (mailgate1.uea.ac.uk [139.222.230.1]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA24979; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 02:18:38 -0800 Received: from cpca6.uea.ac.uk by mailgate1.uea.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:14:53 +0000 Received: from enveco1.env.uea.ac.uk by cpca6.uea.ac.uk; (5.65/1.1.8.2/29Jun95-0305PM) id AA18930; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:14:51 GMT Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:13:20 GMT From: "Room 01.38" Subject: DNA extraction To: annelida@net.bio.net Message-Id: Priority: Normal Delivery-Receipt-To: "Room 01.38" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Would someone know a protocol for extracting total DNA from formaldehyde-preserved polychaetes? (I use CTAB to extract DNA from fresh polychaetes, but it does not work on formaldehyde-preserved animals) Thanks, Sophie ******************************** Sophie Nadot School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia NORWICH NR4 7TJ U.K. Tel. (direct): (01603) 592041 Fax: (01603) 507719 Email: s.nadot@uea.ac.uk ******************************** From BIOSCI-REQUEST Tue Mar 12 02:00:24 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA01015; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 02:00:24 -0800 Received: (from biohelp@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA01001; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 02:00:16 -0800 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 02:00:16 -0800 From: BIOSCI Administrator Message-Id: <199603121000.CAA01001@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI Fundraising Update! I'm interrupting the usual monthly posting of the BIOSCI miniFAQ to bring you up to date on BIOSCI fundraising progress, a topic of concern to your future use of this resource. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this message carefully. Last year we announced that BIOSCI was going to adopt the U.S. Public Broadcasting System model to fund its operations after our DOE/NSF grant runs out later this year. Unlike PBS, we are not soliciting contributions from users; we are only selling ads on our Web pages solely to cover our operating costs. Our goal is to seek sponsorships until we build up an operating reserve of about $100,000 and then cease further promotions until we need to build the reserve back up. (The accountants among our readership will be familiar with the problem of deferred revenue which we can not safely utilize until ads have been displayed for a period of time.) We have three sponsors to date with a couple more pending. The process is time-consuming, however, and we need your help as explained further below. Our operating costs consist of our network connection, phone lines, hardware maintenance (we hope to have new and faster hardware soon!), plus 0.7 FTE of salaries covering UNIX systems admin, technical support, quality assurance, i.e., testing, of our system, and administrative costs (such as the time it takes to actually find/write/call potential sponsors and raise money!). Although the BIOSCI staff does get compensated for a portion of the work that they do, this project has always received a lot of free after-hours and "vacation" time labor, so we hope that no one will begrudge the time that we do charge to the project to serve you. All of the three part-time staff members, Dave Mack, Julie Lawrence, and myself, have full time day jobs and families in addition to working hard to keep this service running for all of you. Julie and Dave Mack are subcontractors for BIOSCI; my time that is charged to the project defrays a portion of my regular salary instead of adding to my income. Besides having to relocate the project, we were very busy this last year building new infrastructure such as our WWW hypermail interface to the system. This was released last December along with scores of WAIS indices for the newsgroups. Virtually everything is complete, although we do continue to find and fix bugs (many through your helpful feedback!). We are still having some problems with our WAIS indexing. The archives continue to grow rapidly. We are running over 100 indexes now versus three previously and any systems crashes cause greater havoc with the indexing than before! We are still working to fix this as fast as our resources permit and appreciate your patience, but we have been able to automate a lot of the infrastructure to reduce labor as compared to past requirements. We have also implemented new software to make moderation of BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups much easier and combat the growing problem of Internet junk mail and USENET "spamming." About 20% of our groups are now moderated, many of them by the BIOSCI staff! This, for example, made a major difference last year in the quality of content in our EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs.offered newsgroup which many commercial concerns and recruiting firms are using **without charge** to recruit candidates for positions in the biological sciences. We are also now in a position to have sponsors for individual newsgroups as you will have noticed if you have visited http://www.bio.net/ and clicked on "Access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups" recently. So, how can you help?? ---------------------- As noted above it can take a lot of time to contact potential sponsors if I have to do it all myself. Our request is quite simple. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can now post or reply to messages via your Web browser. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. Our hope is to quickly raise several large corporate/institutional sponsors on our heavily-used WWW locations (some stats appended below), and then end this sponsorship campaign so that our resources can continue to be used for service provision, not fundraising. Many of our specialty newsgroup WWW archives are still used by small communities of scientists (and they haven't been heavily promoted yet). While these may be valuable niche markets to some advertisers, it will generate more labor and overhead having to find these sponsors, fairly price the locations, and deal with lots of smaller sponsorships than fewer mid-to large sponsors. We are striving to keep our operation as lean and efficient as possible since we are not trying to make careers out of running BIOSCI. We are trying if at all possible to avoid the administrative overhead entailed with processing lots of small payments to reach our fundraising goals. I'd like to thank all of you for your help in advance. In helping us, you are also helping yourselves, not only in keeping this resource available for all of the both large and small research communities that we serve, but also by alleviating the need for us to go back and compete with researchers for tight grant dollars! We promised NSF when we were awarded the BIOSCI grant that we would carry out this mission to make the service self-supporting. With your help, we will succeed in continuing BIOSCI's work into its second decade. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net A list of our prime WWW sponsorship locations follow. Statistics are for the four week period from 22 Jan. - 18 Feb. 1996 and usage continues to grow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The overall BIOSCI WWW pages are currently visited by users from close to 5000 unique computer hosts per week. Web servers only log the Internet computer/host name and frequently more than one individual can connect to us from a particular host. Main home page, http://www.bio.net, visited recently by about 2100 unique hosts per week Main Newsgroups archives page, http://www.bio.net/archives.html, visited recently by about 1200 Unique hosts per week BIO-JOURNALS archive page, http://www.bio.net/BIO-JOURNALS.html, visited recently by about 1000 unique hosts per week. EMPLOYMENT archive pages: http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/EMPLOYMENT/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 600 unique hosts per week. Address database search page, http://www.bio.net/addrsearch.html, visited recently by about 450 unique hosts per week. Methods newsgroup archive pages, http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/METHDS- REAGNTS/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 350 unique hosts per week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From BIOSCI-REQUEST Tue Mar 12 23:38:30 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA24699; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:38:30 -0800 Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU (staff.cs.su.OZ.AU [129.78.8.1]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA24696; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:38:26 -0800 Received: from amsg.austmus.oz.au by gate.Austmus.oz.au id aa26730; Wed, 13 Mar 96 18:56:06 EST Received: from cc:Mail by amsg.Austmus.oz.au (1.20/SMTPLink) id A24860; Wed, 13 Mar 96 18:08:05 AEST Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 18:08:05 AEST From: PatH Message-ID: <9603131808.A24860@amsg.Austmus.oz.au> To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: Meredith Jones Text item: Text_1 It is with a lot of sadness that I am writing this note- Meredith had been ill for some time with cancer and recently died- those of who who visited the Worm section at The Smithsonian will remember his cheerful face and a willingness to help and discuss taxonomic problems and help clarify morphological structures. On my first visit I was given a detailed picture of how he was revising the Family Magelonidae and how he was gradually finding valid characters to separate this nasty group- to my eyes all of which looked the same- He agreed to look at some Australian material and we got a name I wonder what ever happened to that matrix on the wall? However perhaps it was on my next visit when some amazing animals arrived and we spent all day looking at these animals- subsequently to be called Riftia-- these became his consuming passion and over the next few years he undertook a very detailed study of the morphology of the group and he never did get back to those Magelonids. Sometimes working with Steve Gardner he basically sectioned the animal and was able to reconstruct amazing 3D reconstructions which enabled them to begin to understand the morphology and which greatly facilitated all the other studies which began to occur on vent faunas. While some of us disagree with his suggested phylogeny of the group-- and there status-- without Meredith's detailed studies their true position could only have bee guessed at. With Meredith's passing we have lost a truly remarkable invertebrate biologist and morphologist -- and I have lost a friend as have many of you. Pat From BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Mar 13 16:06:53 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA15677; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:06:53 -0800 Received: from emout06.mail.aol.com (emout06.mail.aol.com [198.81.10.43]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA15665; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:06:51 -0800 From: Cutlereb@aol.com Received: by emout06.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA07183 for ANNELIDA@net.bio.net; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 19:03:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 19:03:51 -0500 Message-ID: <960313190349_167866783@emout06.mail.aol.com> To: ANNELIDA@net.bio.net Subject: Meredith Jones Greetings, As a follow-up to Pat H's earlier note on Meredit's passing - I too shall miss him. As the only other American who has described a species of Pogonophora (whatever their status might be - yet to be decided?) Meredith has been a mentor and friend for over 30 years. His balance and sense of self (i.e. not inflated) made him an easy person to be with and learn from - he was special as a person and as a biologist. For those of you who may wish to do so he requested that an appropriate memorial would be to send a gift the the San Juan County Library c/o his wife: Mrs Gerry Jones, 2283 Mitchell Bay Rd., Friday Harbor, WA 98250. They provided him with taped books in the later stages of his illness. Ed Cutler From BIOSCI-REQUEST Sat Mar 16 01:45:15 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA11322; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 01:45:15 -0800 Received: from ida.uni-rostock.de (ida.uni-rostock.de [139.30.8.9]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA11298; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 01:45:12 -0800 Received: from hp1.uni-rostock.de by ida.uni-rostock.de with SMTP id AA17485 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for annelida@net.bio.net); Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:42:34 +0100 Received: from frserv.bio3.uni-rostock.de by hp1.uni-rostock.de with SMTP (1.36.108.10/15.6) id AA05326; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:42:31 +0100 Received: by frserv.bio3.uni-rostock.de (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA25275; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:42:02 +0100 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:42:02 +0100 From: ralf@frserv.bio3.uni-rostock.de (Ralf Bochert) Message-Id: <9603160942.AA25275@frserv.bio3.uni-rostock.de> To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: Albermale-Sound system Cc: ralf@frserv.bio3.uni-rostock.de X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Dear Anneliders, I am looking for some informations or publications about the Albermale-Sound System (USA, North Carolina) especially about the northern part of this estuary: the Currytuck-Sound. 1. 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From BIOSCI-REQUEST Mon Mar 18 09:08:01 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA28632; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:08:01 -0800 Received: from polaris.humboldt.edu (root@polaris.humboldt.edu [137.150.64.1]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA28622; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:07:57 -0800 Received: from p2-as2.humbol1.csu.sloc.net (p2-as2.humbol1.csu.sloc.net [206.107.68.42]) by polaris.humboldt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA20778 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:17:18 -0800 Message-Id: <199603181817.KAA20778@polaris.humboldt.edu> X-Sender: jkw1@137.150.148.10 (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:05:23 -0800 To: annelida@net.bio.net From: jkw1@mailsrvr.humboldt.edu (John K. Weaver) Subject: reference material Would like to know if the reference material in " Literature on the Polychaeta (Annelida)", by Linda Ward is still available and about other new reference material on the Orbiniidae. thanks John Weaver Biolgy Department Humboldt State University jkw1@axe.humboldt.edu From BIOSCI-REQUEST Mon Mar 18 11:31:14 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA16813; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:31:14 -0800 Received: from mail.tamu.edu (MAIL.TAMU.EDU [128.194.103.4]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA16799; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:31:06 -0800 Received: from lrc12.tamu.edu (lrc12.tamu.edu [165.95.51.137]) by mail.tamu.edu (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id NAA13247 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:28:32 -0600 Message-Id: <199603181928.NAA13247@mail.tamu.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 13:41:19 -0800 From: Joshua Lisinicchia Organization: Texas A&M University at Galveston X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: Sight and Photoreception of Annelids Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello my name is Joshua Lisinicchia, and I am a senior at Texas A&M, and I am currently finishing my studies in marine biology. I am now taking a class called invertebrate zoology. We are to do a paper on the topic of my professors choosing. I got sight and photoreception of annelids, and so far have been unsuccessful in my search through scientific journals. I thought i would give the ol' WWW a try and happened upon this site. If you have any, or know of any published material i could use i would really appreciate a reply to this letter. Thank you very much, and I hope to hear from someone soon. :) Joshua ps: I don't know if this means anything, but my professor is Dr. Donald Harper. Thanks again. From BIOSCI-REQUEST Mon Mar 18 11:45:46 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA18351; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:45:46 -0800 Received: from sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu (root@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu [130.74.1.75]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA18334; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:45:38 -0800 Received: from bygaston.bio.olemiss.edu by sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id NAA13071; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:42:55 -0600 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:42:55 -0600 Message-Id: <199603181942.NAA13071@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu> X-Sender: bygaston@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: jkw1@mailsrvr.humboldt.edu (John K. Weaver) From: bygaston@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu (Gary R. Gaston) Subject: Re: sandy worms Cc: annelida@net.bio.net >I am doing research for my masters on Naineris dendritica, Orbiniidae, and >have found some of them so plugged up with sand in the posterior segments >that they tend to break very easily when being cleaned or on their own >naturally. Evolutionarily this would be selected against, so it may be a >case of a bad combination of too many silaceous diatoms injested with the >sand. It made me think of your correspondence with Jerry McLelland last >month regarding the same problem in the Aricidea. The nainerid gut appears >to be susceptable to plugging from its morphology, possibly the Aricidea gut >and diet are similar to Naineris dendritica. . >John Weaver >Biolgy Department >Humboldt State University >jkw1@axe.humboldt.edu > > Sounds like the same thing. Our paper (which describes a new species of Aricidea in the subgenus Allia) is now published in Gulf Research Reports (vol. 9, no. 3, pages 189-196). We mentioned this sand-filled gut in the paper. I suspect, at least in the case of Aricidea, that the worm lives only a short time (1 year) and they simply accumulate sand the entire time. It may have some benefit (deter predation, increase surface area of digestion, help anchor the worm in the tube), but I remain unconvinced. Someone else might have an idea, but I have not heard a plausible one. Gary R. Gaston Biology Department University, Mississippi 38677 (601) 232-7162 From BIOSCI-REQUEST Mon Mar 18 15:21:59 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA14745; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:21:59 -0800 Received: from storm.greta.cri.nz (storm.greta.cri.nz [131.203.56.10]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA14723; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:21:48 -0800 Received: from read.greta.cri.nz ([131.203.56.134]) by storm.greta.cri.nz (8.7.2/8.7.2) with SMTP id LAA04023 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:17:59 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199603182317.LAA04023@storm.greta.cri.nz> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Geoff Read" Organization: NIWA (Greta Point) To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:18:05 +0000 Subject: Annelid WWW, PRO addresses Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.10) Hello folks, This note is about annelid Web pages but please read on even if you don't have access to WWW yet. Some of you may have looked at my WWW page and noticed I promised to expand the annelid and polychaete information in future revisions and shift it to another site. I am pleased to announce that this at last is about to become a reality and that, thanks to access provided by Julian Humphries at Cornell University Biodiversity site, a set of 'Annelid resources' pages will be at that address. Major items of information will include all abstracts from the 5th International Polychaete Conference of last year, an online version of JM (Lobo) Orensanz's evolving checklist of the British Columbia and Washington polychaetes, and condensed guides to polychaete families and higher classification and terminology which will be updated as feedback is received. There is a section for translations (to English!) which at the moment has only one paper in it. I hope you will have others that can be distributed in this way. There will also be background information aimed at informing those newly-interested in polychaetes of some of the resources available (publications,IPA activities, etc, -- things most of you know about, although they may not have been collected together in this way before), and of course links to relevant polychaete and annelid pages and people pages that I have encountered. I will put an updated version of the PRO polychaetologist address list there. So I would like to be informed of any recent important changes and additions to your details. The easiest way to do this is through the form at my WWW page at Actrix, or you can just e- mail me directly. Anyone who does not want their IPC5 abstract distributed online, or who wants to update it, should contact me as soon as possible (Don't worry about new species names. They will not appear!). This site is available to display any useful annelid data and needs your input. If you have any other suitable information please send it along. I will announce the URL for the new pages in a few days (i.e., don't bother to look just yet). Thanks, Geoff -- Geoff Read |\ | | \ /\ / /\ Nat. Inst. Water & Atmos. Res., Wellington NZ | \| | \/ \/ /--\ Taihoro Nukurangi Annelida resources => http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/chaeto/index.html [ANNELIDA server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (unsubscribes) ] [Discussion group address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members)] From BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Mar 20 22:55:13 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA02046; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:55:13 -0800 Received: from atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (atlantis.actrix.gen.nz [192.100.53.23]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA02043; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:55:03 -0800 Received: (from gread@localhost) by atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA23087; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 18:52:23 +1200 From: Geoffrey Read Message-Id: <199603210652.SAA23087@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> Subject: Nereis speciation event 2nd thoughts To: annelida@net.bio.net (ANNELIDA list) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 18:52:22 +1200 (NZST) Reply-To: gread@actrix.gen.nz X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4946 Usenet post by Joseph E Boxhorn. Forwarded to ANNELIDA for comment. I have not yet seen the paper referred to. (For non-usenetters an FAQ is a document of Frequently Asked Questions (with answers :-)) GBR. =========================================================================== From: jboxhorn@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Joseph E Boxhorn) Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Observed Speciation FAQ Date: 20 Mar 1996 03:56:56 GMT Organization: Information & Media Technologies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 79 Distribution: world Some recently published data calls into question whether one of the examples listed in the Observed Instances of Speciation FAQ actually represents a speciation event. In the FAQ I wrote: > 5.7 Speciation in a Lab Rat Worm, Nereis acuminata > In 1964 five or six individuals of the polychaete worm, Nereis > acuminata, were collected in Long Beach Harbor, California. These were > allowed to grow into a population of thousands of individuals. Four > pairs from this population were transferred to the Woods Hole Oceanographic > Institute. For over 20 years these worms were used as test organisms in > environmental toxicology. From 1986 to 1991 the Long Beach area was > searched for populations of the worm. Two populations, P1 and P2, were > found. Weinberg, et al. (1992) performed tests on these two populations > and the Woods Hole population (WH) for both postmating and premating > isolation. To test for postmating isolation, they looked at whether > broods from crosses were successfully reared. The results below give > the percentage of successful rearings for each group of crosses. > WH X WH 75% P1 X P2 77% > P1 X P1 95% WH X P1 0% > P2 X P2 80% WH X P2 0% > They also found statistically significant premating isolation between > the WH population and the field populations. Finally, the Woods Hole > population showed slightly different karyotypes from the field > populations. Please note that the conclusions drawn above depend upon an assumption that either P1 or P2 represent an ancestral strain to the Woods Hole strain. Given this we would expect to find a goodly amount of genetic similarity between at least one of the wild strains and the lab strain. This should be especially true for allozyme loci. This is because these enzymes are held to be fairly neutral to selection. In a follow up to this study, Rodriguez-Trelles, et al. (1996) used allozyme electrophoresis to examine 18 genetic loci in 12 enzyme systems in several Nereis populations including the original study populations. They then compared the Woods Hole population to both of the Long Beach populations and a population from the Atlantic Ocean. The Woods Hole strain showed no variability at any of the 18 loci. At 13 of the loci it had no alleles in common with either the P1 or P2 population. At 2 more loci alleles were fixed in the Woods Hole strain that were present at low frequencies in the P1 and P2 strains. The authors estimated that the probability of getting the alleles they found in the Woods Hole strain by random choice from either P1 or P2 was 5.3 X 10^(-6). The Nei's genetic distances between the Woods Hole strain and P1 and P2 are respectively 1.75 (+/- 0.51) and 1.76 (+/- 0.52). These distances are larger than what is seen between most pairs of congeneric species in many sorts of organisms. They are on the order or the genetic distances found between the P1 (and P2) strain and the Atlantic Ocean strain (1.36 +/- 0.40). The authors conclude that the Woods Hole strain probably represented, at collection in 1964, a different species from P1 or P2. I feel that in view of the fact that one of the authors of the original paper is also an author of this new paper, we should no longer consider this an example of observed speciation. Rodriguez-Trelles, F., J. R. Weinberg and F. J. Ayala. 1996. Presumptive rapid speciation after a founder event in a laboratory population of Nereis: Allozyme electrophoretic evidence does not support the hypothesis. Evolution. 50:457-461. Weinberg, J. R., V. R. Starczak and P. Jora. 1992. Evidence for rapid speciation following a founder event in the laboratory. Evolution. 46:1214-1220. -- Joseph Boxhorn (jboxhorn@csd.uwm.edu) Department of Biological Sciences University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee "Coffee does not make you nervous - your own inadequacies do this. Coffee merely increases your perception of your own shortcomings." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Geoff Read [ANNELIDA server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (unsubscribes) ] [Discussion group address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members)] From BIOSCI-REQUEST Thu Mar 21 06:36:57 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA12795; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 06:36:57 -0800 Received: from onyx.si.edu (onyx.si.edu [160.111.65.50]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA12787; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 06:36:53 -0800 Received: from [160.111.86.122] (MNH86122.SI.EDU [160.111.86.122]) by onyx.si.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9 (Smithsonian Institution) with SMTP id JAA05378 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:34:17 -0500 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:35:34 -0400 To: annelida@net.bio.net From: norenbur@onyx.si.edu (Jon Norenburg) Subject: Re: Nereis speciation event 2nd thoughts >Usenet post by Joseph E Boxhorn. Forwarded to ANNELIDA for comment. I have not >yet seen the paper referred to. (For non-usenetters an FAQ is a document of >Frequently Asked Questions (with answers :-)) GBR. >=========================================================================== > > From: jboxhorn@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Joseph E Boxhorn) > Newsgroups: talk.origins > Subject: Observed Speciation FAQ > Date: 20 Mar 1996 03:56:56 GMT > Organization: Information & Media Technologies, University of Wisconsin - > Milwaukee > Lines: 79 > Distribution: world > > Some recently published data calls into question whether one of the > examples listed in the Observed Instances of Speciation FAQ actually > represents a speciation event. In the FAQ I wrote: Very interesting. It's tempting to use hindsight to make some snide comments about this event - but I think the lesson is obvious, the studies were well-executed, and I certainly can see myself falling into the same pit; and the event actually is instructive in its way. I find particularly ironic the implications this has for the escalating use of citation index numbers (esp. here in the US) by tenure and promotion committees - do you suppose anyone will tell these committees explicitly that these two spikes should be treated as subtractive? --Jon Jon L. Norenburg Department of Invertebrate Zoology-MRC 163 National Museum of Natural History Washington, DC 20560 From BIOSCI-REQUEST Thu Mar 21 14:14:38 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA03580; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:14:38 -0800 Received: from atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (atlantis.actrix.gen.nz [192.100.53.23]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA03574; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:14:28 -0800 Received: (from gread@localhost) by atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA05632; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:11:51 +1200 From: Geoffrey Read Message-Id: <199603212211.KAA05632@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> Subject: 31st European Mar. Biol. Symp. (ANNOUNCE) To: annelida@net.bio.net (ANNELIDA list) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:11:48 +1200 (NZST) Reply-To: gread@actrix.gen.nz X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4081 Forwarded from ============================================================================ 31 EMBS Organising Committee Dear Colleagues! Please receive the First Announcement of 31st EUROPEAN MARINE BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM which will be held in Russia in September 1996. If you have not registered yet do not hesitate to contact us by fax or e-mail. Sincerely, Organising Committee 31st EUROPEAN MARINE BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM Date: September 9th to 13th 1996 Place: Hotel "St.Petersburg", St.Petersburg, Russia Organising Institutions: Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; White Sea Biological Station, St.Petersburg; Moscow State University, Department of Biology, Moscow. TOPICS 1. Adaptation Strategies of Marine Organisms. Contributions should discuss physiological, morphological and biochemical adaptations to moderate and extreme environmental conditions such as salinity, temperature, oxygen concentration and so on. 2. The Interaction of Marine Organisms in Communities Contributions should deal with all kinds of symbiosis, fouling of living organisms and predator-prey relations as well as parasite-host interactions. We are particularly interested in long-term dynamics of interactions between two or more species of individual, population or community level. It is intended also to have a parallel workshop "Obelia as a Dominant in Epibiotic Communities". Contributions should be within the framework of themes 1 or 2. Both oral presentations and posters concerning the above-mentioned topics will be included in the Symposium programme. Experimental studies and investigations under natural conditions are welcome. LANGUAGE The Symposium language will be English. REGISTRATION All participants are requested to complete the attached registration form. CONTRIBUTIONS Abstracts should be on one side of A4, double space, 65 characters per line. 1. Author(s); 2. Institution, country; 3. Title; 4. Text. Abstracts could be sent by mail, fax or e-mail. All abstracts will be reviewed. The Organising Committee may not be able to accept all oral presentations submitted. The papers not accepted as oral presentations could be represented at poster sessions. REGISTRATION FORM Name and Title If student please mark Address Phone Fax E-mail Country I shall be accompanied by I propose to present a paper/poster entitled I would like accommodation: in "St.Petersburg" hotel.......... I prefer my own accommodation...... Signature......................... PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in a Symposium Volume REGISTRATION FEE Before After May, 1st May, 1st Full participants $300 $350 Students $150 $200 Accompanying persons $120 $150 The Registration Fee includes Social events and for full participants a copy of the Symposium Volume. ACCOMMODATION Participants will be accommodated at "St.Petersburg" hotel. The cost per night per person is no more than $65 (room for one person) or $40 (room for two persons). Lunch is about $10 per person. Hostels is available for students only ($30 per night per person). Breakfast included in all cases. SECRETARIAT All correspondence should be addresses to: Eugenia G. Goncharova 31st EMBS Zoological Institute RAS Universitetskaya nab. 1 St.Petersburg 199034 RUSSIA Phone +(812) 114-0097 Fax +(812) 218-2941 +(812) 114-0444 E-mail EMBS@WSBS.SPB.SU ============================================================================ -- Geoff Read Annelida resources => http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/chaeto/index.html From BIOSCI-REQUEST Fri Mar 22 05:39:30 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA06732; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 05:39:30 -0800 Received: from amelia.brynmawr.edu (amelia.brynmawr.edu [165.106.1.6]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA06727; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 05:39:26 -0800 Received: from [165.106.22.50] (bio_lab11.brynmawr.edu [165.106.22.50]) by amelia.brynmawr.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA05811 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 08:36:15 -0500 X-Sender: sgardine@ada.brynmawr.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 08:34:58 -0500 To: annelida@net.bio.net From: sgardine@brynmawr.edu (Stephen L. Gardiner) Subject: Meredith L. Jones As I believe all of you know by now, Meredith Jones passed away earlier this month. Over the years, I had the privelege of working closely with him on a number of projects involving the vestimentiferans, culminating in a chapter on that group in volume 12 of the series on the Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates. With his passing, the "World of Invertebrates" has truly lost a great contributor, and I have lost a dear mentor and friend. Meredith's wife, Gerry, asked me to write a biographical sketch of Meredith's professional activities. I was honored that she would trust me with such an important project. I offer my effort below for all of you who knew, or knew of, Meredith's studies and other professional activities. I hope you will find it of interest. Steve Gardiner *************************************** Meredith L. Jones 1926 - 1996 Meredith L. Jones received his undergraduate and graduate training at the University of California at Berkeley, culminating with the Ph.D. degree in 1956. His doctoral work, under the direction of Professor Cadet Hand and entitled, "A quantitative evaluation of the benthic fauna off Point Richmond, San Francisco Bay, California", was a pioneering study that examined the spatial and temporal distribution of benthic marine invertebrates. This study was published in its near entirety in 1961 and remains as a model for the examination of benthic diversity in the world's oceans. Upon completing his Ph.D. degree, he was Acting Instructor, Department of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley for one year and was Research Associate, Oceanographic Institute, Florida State University from 1957 to 1960. He was Assistant Curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York from 1960 to 1964, after which he joined the staff of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. At the NMNH he rose through the positions of Assistant and Associate Curator to the position of Curator in 1968 and remained with the NMNH until his retirement in 1989. His professional activities, among many, included the teaching of summer courses at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (1966-1968), acting as symposium convenor for "The Panamic Biota: Some Observations Prior to a Sea Level Canal" (1971-1972), acting as project supervisor for a contract with the Bureau of Land Management/Mineral Management Service, Department of Interior, "Archival of Voucher and Other Specimens from BLM/MMS Outer Continental Shelf Programs" (1979-1989), and acting as symposium convenor for "The Hydrothermal Vents of the Eastern Pacific: An Overview" (1983-1985). During the 1970s, he was an active participant in the debate on how a sea-level canal would affect the shallow-water faunal assemblages of Panama. He offered testimony to several Congressional committees, especially noting the paucity of knowledge of the shallow-water faunal assemblages on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Panama. To address this concern, he obtained funding, organized and led several expeditions to Panama. The material collected on these expeditions remains as the definitive baseline data set of the shallow-water marine invertebrates of Panama. As Curator at the NMNH, he actively pursued all opportunities to add to the collections of the Museum. In addition to Panama, he traveled to Cuba, Bermuda and a variety of other Caribbean localities to collect benthic invertebrates, bringing back large numbers of specimens to add to the collections of the NMNH. His direction of the project with the Bureau of Land Management/Mineral Management Service resulted in the addition of hundreds of thousands of lots of benthic marine invertebrates to the Museum's collections, assuring that future generations of scientists will have specimens to assist in the evaluation of marine biodiversity in regions of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Beginning in 1979, and lasting until his retirement, he turned his attentions to a small group of benthic marine worms (vestimentiferans) that live in association with deep-sea hydrothermal vents and deep-sea hydrocarbon seep ecosystems. Through personal collecting and by encouraging the donation of specimens from other scientists, he assembled the largest and most diverse collection of vestimentiferan worms and other vent and seep related species in any museum in the world. His research interests varied throughout his distinguished career, but regardless of the topic he remained committed to the ideal of the "dissemination of knowledge." To that end, he published in excess of 85 papers and abstracts in books and professionally refereed journals. These contributions were broad ranging in their coverage, including studies of biodiversity, studies of various physical parameters of the oceans and their effects on the organisms living there, experiments utilizing electrophoresis as a methodology to help determine evolutionary relationships of a variety of marine invertebrate groups, taxonomy of several marine invertebrate groups (polychaetous annelids, crustaceans and vestimentiferans), and finally, investigations using light and electron microscopes to elucidate the morphology of marine invertebrates. The significance of his published studies can be further appreciated by the fact that authors of other professional papers cited results and/or insights from his investigations in excess of 500 times by 1989. Immediately prior to his death, he was actively involved in the description of a new species of vestimentiferan recently discovered in a hydrocarbon seep community in the Gulf of Mexico. His unique insights on this new vestimentiferan will be published in the near future. His legacy, however, includes not only this work and his many published studies but also the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students he helped to train and the worldwide community of colleagues whose work was enriched through interactions with him throughout his career. ***************************************** Stephen L. Gardiner Dept. of Biology Bryn Mawr College 101 N. 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From BIOSCI-REQUEST Mon Mar 25 14:57:27 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA00713; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:57:27 -0800 Received: from netcom18.netcom.com (mblcsdla@netcom18.netcom.com [192.100.81.131]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA00710; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:57:25 -0800 Received: by netcom18.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id OAA21345; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:54:48 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:54:48 -0800 (PST) From: Marine Biology Laboratory Subject: locating Michael Ewing To: annelida@net.bio.net Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello polychaete workers: Does anyone have a current e-mail address for Michael Ewing. I last tried to contact him at Old Dominion University. He was working on capitellids. I'd like to see if I could get some of his final results. If you can please pass my e-mail address on to him or forward his e-mail address to me so I can discuss his work directly. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Tom Parker LACSD Marine Bio Lab mblcsdla@netcom.com From BIOSCI-REQUEST Tue Mar 26 16:44:05 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA06045; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:44:05 -0800 Received: from blackhole.mus-nature.ca (mus-nature.ca [198.53.203.3]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA06041; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:43:59 -0800 Received: from localhost (uucp@localhost) by blackhole.mus-nature.ca (8.6.5/8.6.6) id UAA05639 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:06:50 -0500 Received: from unknown(172.16.100.2) by internet.mus-nature.ca via smap (V1.3) id sma005634; Tue Mar 26 20:06:28 1996 Received: from smtpgate by cmnsco.mus-nature.ca id aa14078; 26 Mar 96 19:36 EST Received: by smtpgate.mus-nature.ca with Microsoft Mail id <3158B84E@smtpgate.mus-nature.ca>; Tue, 26 Mar 96 19:38:54 PST From: "Fournier, Judith" To: Annelida Group Subject: "Nereis" speciation event Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 19:38:00 PST Message-ID: <3158B84E@smtpgate.mus-nature.ca> Encoding: 44 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 The following is part of a message forwarded to Annelida: > 5.7 Speciation in a Lab Rat Worm, Nereis acuminata > In 1964 five or six individuals of the polychaete worm, Nereis > acuminata, were collected in Long Beach Harbor, California. These were > allowed to grow into a population of thousands of individuals. Four > pairs from this population were transferred to the Woods Hole Oceanographic > Institute. For over 20 years these worms were used as test organisms in > environmental toxicology. From 1986 to 1991 the Long Beach area was > searched for populations of the worm. Two populations, P1 and P2, were > found. Weinberg, et al. (1992) performed tests on these two populations > and the Woods Hole population (WH) for both postmating and premating > isolation. To test for postmating isolation, they looked at whether > broods from crosses were successfully reared. The results below give > the percentage of successful rearings for each group of crosses. Reading between the lines, it appears the researchers are dealing with some of the "Neanthes arenaceodentata" lab cultures first developed by Don Reish. N. arenaceodentata is a New England endemic but for many years the name was mistakenly applied to some west coast specimens. Pesch et al (1988: Ophelia 28(2):163-167) showed that the Maine and California have different chromosome complements and cannot be the same species. The use of the name "Nereis accuminata" for these specimens is probably invalid since this species was described by Day (1973) from North Carolina. It is not a Californian species. Neanthes caudata (delle Chiaje, 1828) as suggested by Hartman (1968) is a mediterranean speces. One west coast species belonging to the "jaws like sand - group" is Nereis eakini Hartman. This leads to 2 recommendations: 1. A thorough review of the Nereis/Neanthes spp. of California. 2. Much more care in assigning names to populations -- cosmopolitan crypto-species seem to be more common than we thought. It might also be a good idea to compare the Wood's Hole specimens to N. arenaceodentata from New England. Judith A. Fournier Canadian Museum of Nature JFournier@mus-nature.ca From BIOSCI-REQUEST Sat Mar 30 18:01:59 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA03826; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 18:01:59 -0800 Received: from atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (atlantis.actrix.gen.nz [192.100.53.23]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA03821; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 18:01:54 -0800 Received: from gread.actrix.gen.nz (chaeto.actrix.gen.nz [202.36.204.171]) by atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA03323 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 13:59:06 +1200 Message-Id: <199603310159.NAA03323@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: gread@actrix.gen.nz Organization: Polychaete Researcher To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 13:59:38 +0000 Subject: Already published IPC5 papers Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.30) Annelida members with IPC5 papers, Congratulations to those of you who have already worked their contributions into journals. If you have gone down that path (or know the details of someone else's) could you please drop me an e-mail as they appear in print with the reference and ideally a copy of the abstract? As I've already said, the Fifth Polychaete Conference Abstracts have been kindly made available to me to put on the under-construction Annelida Web page at Cornell. (This is to make a searchable electronic copy available for everybody, whether you have the conference booklet or not. I can tell you it is worthwhile to have and looks good. It was in fact ready a long time ago but various complications since have got in the way of its appearance online.) Hopefully most of the content will be in place over the next week (there goes my evening spare time!). I've decided to deal with papers which will be published outside the conference proceedings by maintaining a separate list of them which will also be put up as a web page. So far I have Guenter Purschke et al. on Polyophthalmus. So ... any more candidates for this list at the moment? Thanks, Geoff -- Geoff Read Annelida resources => http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/chaeto/index.html From BIOSCI-REQUEST Sun Mar 31 11:29:51 1996 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA26019; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:29:51 -0800 Received: from wep.uminho.pt (wep.uminho.pt [193.136.9.122]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA26016; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:29:44 -0800 From: biomar@dragoeiro.uma.pt Received: from nunes.uminho.pt by wep.uminho.pt with SMTP (PP) id <08835-0@wep.uminho.pt>; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:26:53 +0200 Received: by nunes.uminho.pt (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA00111; Sun, 31 Mar 96 21:26:44 +0200 Received: by dragoeiro.uma.pt (5.4R3.00/200.1.1.4) id AA04775; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:26:35 GMT Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:26:35 GMT Message-Id: <9603311926.AA04775@dragoeiro.uma.pt> To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: new book Dear colleagues, I hope you will not consider thius advertisemnet, even though, in part, it is. 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