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When we set up pan traps, we normally use water to catch insects. However, if we want to use alcohol to preserve both specimens and DNA, we need to prevent alcohol from evaporation. What liquid...
05 May 2017 2,840 4 View
Joel Cracraft listed 7 big questions of systematic biology (ANN. MISSOURI BOT. GARD. 89: 127–144. 2002.). 1. Wat is a species? 2. How many species are there? 3. What is the tree of life? 4. What...
12 December 2016 1,528 0 View
Currently, we are developing capacity on integrative taxonomy on solitary bees in China. If we want to speed up species discovery, we face following same challenges as those on other insect groups...
06 June 2016 6,578 3 View
With supports from both China Entomological Society and Beijing Entomological Society, we organized the 1st working group meeting under the Special Committee on Pollinator Insects (June 28-29,...
06 June 2016 9,090 4 View
Dear Colleagues, It is our great honour and pleasure to invite you to the International Biogeography Society (IBS) Special Meeting 2016 (IBS2016-China for short). The IBS, founded in 2001, is the...
01 January 2016 1,996 3 View
We are planning and organising a special issue on animal phylogenetics in Zoological Systematics (http://www.zootax.com.cn/index_en.aspx). If you would like to share review, new point of view, new...
01 January 2016 2,462 1 View
Are you interested in interdisciplinary studies on insects? Use your mobile to scan and join the wechat group organized by some young entomologists in...
12 December 2015 8,488 16 View
Dear Colleagues, If you have any candidates to recommend, please contact me at [email protected]. We can discuss projects via email or wechat before the official submission. Potential advisors...
12 December 2015 2,117 1 View
Special Committee on Pollinator Insects was established under the Chinese Entomological Society on Sept. 23rd, 2015 (Chinese version, http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-536560-923997.html). Currently,...
10 October 2015 712 20 View
I have been interested in phylogenetics since 1993 after I read the first book, Numerical Taxonomy by Sokal & Sneath and tried the first software, Hennig86 by Farris. Those days, students,...
10 October 2015 7,928 2 View
I'm conceiving a few paragraphs to discuss on contributions from taxonomists, demands from other topics and gaps between taxonomists and other researchers. Here, taxonomists are not limited to...
02 February 2015 1,977 1 View
We have been monitoring insect species and dynamics with different sampling traps including malaise traps, nest traps and yellow pan-traps. Are there any approaches/equipments to record insects...
02 February 2015 6,765 4 View
We are organising insect diversity monitoring networks in China. I just drafted the talk to present on the 1st Biodiversity Monitoring Conference, China. All texts are in Chinese at the...
01 January 2015 6,364 20 View
We are searching for manual on morphology of pollens. For DNA, are there any recent protocol to extract DNA from pollens? Can anyone provide some references on this?
11 November 2013 5,576 17 View
In previous years, we sequenced some samples of bees/wasps/butterflies/moths to study DNA taxonomy and species diversity. Besides barcodes, we have been also sequencing 28S D2. For most samples,...
09 September 2013 9,279 1 View
When we are trying to sequence COI of bees and parasitoid wasps, we always collected legs and stored them in pure alcohol. However, we failed to get COI from many samples with good DNA. If you...
09 September 2013 3,396 5 View
We demonstrated the multiple loci approach for species delimitation with COI, CytB and 28S D2. I'm still wondering if genes with different evolutionary rates will lead to different MOTU?
08 August 2013 8,392 0 View
We recently did metabarcoding of samples from Malaise Traps. But, the primers worked not so well. We got loads of data. However, we could not pair-wise align short reads from both ends of the COI...
01 January 1970 4,186 7 View
These days, I have been thinking about speciation and diversification. If we make the most simple assumption as below, we come to the one species model. The questions could be below - 1. If there...
01 January 1970 4,212 3 View
Purposes: 1. Take the picture of an insect from the ARP system; 2. Compare this picture with those in a image database; 3. Provide relevant results if the image is similar to some insect...
01 January 1970 6,375 4 View
