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Recently published, as part of a series, is
"A Review of Berlese's species belonging to the Uropodina with illustrations.
Part I: species and subspecies beginning with letters a and b. (Mesostigmata: Parasitiformes: Acari)"
by Flora Gorirossi-Bourdeau.
The publication is available from the author
Flora Gorirossi-Bourdeau
26 Avenue des Fleurs
1150 Brussels, Belgium
e-mail: bourdeau@ulb.ac.be
*Please send response to sender: Bubelan <Bubelan@aol.com>
From: Bubelan <Bubelan@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:14:11 EDT
To: Z.Zhang@nhm.ac.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Subject: demodex mites and human disease
X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 38
Hi..i am a dermatologist at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in NYC.
I am interested in looking at the relation of several human skin diseases
to demodex folliculorum mites. Do you know anyone who has isolated
any antigenic proteins from these mites. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Donald
Rudikoff, M.D.
I posted a couple of weeks ago about putative marine mites I observed on sponges. I haven't received any response. Any response would be welcome.
Meanwhile, in speaking with my son's pediatrician yesterday, it came out that there is one beach, near a sewage outfall and a newly abandoned dump, where quite a few people have reported picking up a rash. The doctor says there is a "mite" out there. I wondered, are there known to be such medically important marine mites? Perhaps she was using "mite" in a less precise sense.
Alan Davis
--
Alan E. Davis
Marianas High School (Science Department)
AAA196, Box 10001 adavis@netpci.com http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis
Saipan, MP 96950 15.16oN 145.7oE GMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
On Sat, 2 May 1998 Z.Zhang@nhm.ac.uk wrote:
>
> Hi..i am a dermatologist at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in NYC.
I am interested in looking at
> the relation of several human skin diseases to demodex folliculorum
mites. Do you know anyone
> who has isolated any antigenic proteins from these mites.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Donald Rudikoff, M.D.
>
>Dear Dr. Rudikoff,
In the early 80's we did some work on human demodicosis. Antigenic
material was obtained by squashing the demodex nodules of goats, where
tens- to hundreds of thousands of Demodex caprae can be isolated.
Unfortunately all our effort with infection of uninfested jung
goads, skin testing and lymphocyte transformation tests did not give any
clear cut results.
Good luck
>
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Department of Parasitology
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School
P.O.Box 12272
91120 Jerusalem, Israel
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Fax.: 972 2 6757425
Internet home page:http://www.md.huji.ac.il/depts/parasitology/p-3-7.html
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CC: Acarology <acarology@nhm.ac.uk>
At 6:34 PM +0200 5/3/98, Bourdeau Philippe wrote:
>Recently published, as part of a series, is
>
>"A Review of Berlese's species belonging to the Uropodina with illustrations.
Part I: species and
>subspecies beginning with letters a
and b. (Mesostigmata: Parasitiformes: Acari)" by Flora
>Gorirossi- Bourdeau.
>
>The publication is available from the author
>
Do you know what the cost will be?
Barry M. OConnor
phone: (734) 763-4354
Museum of Zoology
FAX: (734) 763-4080
University of Michigan
e-mail: bmoc@umich.edu
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 USA
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Dear acarologists,
could help me somebody to give me the e-mail
direction of Dr.J.E.M. van Bronswijk from Utrecht State University, The
Netherlands ?
Thank you in anticipation.
F.Dusbabek
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 23:43:19 +0400
To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
From: Henri Andre <henri.andre@euronet.be>
Subject: 1998 Acarology Course at UCL
!!! Derniere annonce - Date limite pour les inscriptions 15 mai !!!
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11ieme COURS INTERNATIONAL D'ACAROLOGIE
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Le prochain cours europ=E9en d'acarologie aura lieu en Belgique, =E0 Matagne-la-Petite, du 3 au 10 septembre 1998.
Le theme en est :
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ACARIENS DES PLANTES CULTIVEES
(Morphologie, systematique, ecologie, dynamique et controle des populations
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Pour tout renseignement et informations compl=E9mentaires, contactez
le
Prof. Ph. Lebrun (lebrun@ecol.ucl.ac.be) ou visitez notre site internet:
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From: Diomedes Quintero <QUINTERD@tivoli.si.edu>
To: listserver@nhm.ac.uk
Cc: quinterd@tivoli.si.edu
Subject: Balsamo de Peru
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Dear acarologists,
A few years ago I "inherited" one large bottle of "Balsamo de Peru"
(Merck, 1 Kg). A few days ago I decided to try it, to prepare a few slides
of soil mites. I found that it is very dark brown! and I had
to quit promptly as the mites were hardly visible when covered with
that dark stuff!
I have tried to find out some information on its usage, asking other
members of our Department of Zoology, Universidad de Panama, but no one
has used it nor even heard of it.
I would like to know if it might be possible to make it more translucent.
Any of you know what is the basic usage of this "Balsamo de Peru"? I would
highly appreciate for some information.
Thanks,
Diomedes Quintero A.
Museo de Invertebrados G.B. Fairchild,
Universidad de Panama, Estafeta Universitaria,
Panama, PANAMA
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Can someone help? Please reply directly to
Jack Woolum <woolum@mercury.calstatela.edu>
>From: Jack Woolum <woolum@mercury.calstatela.edu>
>Organization: California State University, Los Angeles
>X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I)
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>To: Z.Zhang@nhm.ac.uk
>Subject: Citrus mites
>X-URL: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/acarology/
>
>I am interested in some method to rid a lemon tree of the type of
mite which turns the lemons white
>and perhaps will ultimately kill the tree. Is there any non-toxic
(to mammals) method to get rid of
>such mites?
>
>
CC: Jack Woolum <woolum@mercury.calstatela.edu>
Dear all,
I´m planning to take some SEM pictures of spider mites and phytoseiids,
adults and immatures. Since immatures of phytoseiids and also all the stages
of spider mites are quite soft, they might need a treatment with critical
point or something like that. The technician at the SEM could not help
me
about the substances or the procedure to use so... Can anyone of you
give me any help?
If you already have taken some pictures of immature phytoseiid or spider
mites (or similar), please, just tell me...
-what did you use to dehydrate specimens?
-which concentration/s did you use?
-Do you have any 'recipe' that can help me?
I would really appreciate any comment about it. Thanks all!
Liliana
'El miedo seca la boca, moja las manos y mutila. El miedo de saber
nos condena a la ignorancia; el miedo de hacer nos reduce a la impotencia.
La dictadura militar, miedo de escuchar, miedo de decir, nos convirtió
en sordomudos. Ahora la democracia, que tiene miedo de recordar, nos enferma
de amnesia; pero no se necesita ser Sigmund Freud para saber que no hay
alfombra que pueda ocultar la basura de la memoria.'
Eduardo Galeano,
El Libro de los Abrazos
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Liliana N. Monetti
Lab. de Artrópodos, Depto. De Biología
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
Funes 3350 - (7600) Mar del Plata
Argentina
Phone # 54-23-752426 (work); 54-23-736528
(home); Fax # 54-23-753150
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To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
From: Laurent Vanasselt <vanassel@kbinirsnb.be>
Subject: HDM behavior
Dear acarologist,
I am at the end of a research concerning the behavior and the chemical communication in Dermatophagoides farinae and D. pteronyssinus. In the general discussion of the corresponding manuscript I try to argue that a social statues in these mites should exist. Could anyone tell me if such a discussion has already been made with another mite species (more specially with astigmatid mites)? Secondly, I have some few informations about a patchy distribution of these mites in the domestic environment. Have someone already observed this kind of phenomenon (for example, by dust sampling) or could you give me references which suggest this?
Thanks a lot,
Laurent Van Asselt
VANASSELT@kbinirsnb.be
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
29 rue Vautier
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
Laurent Van Asselt
DÈpartement Entomologie
I.R.S.N.B. - K.B.I.N.
29 rue Vautier
1000 Bruxelles
BELGIUM
Dear Liliana,
I am currently preparing some Phytoseiids
for SEM. I am fixing them in 3% gluteraldehyde and
taking them through a series of ethanol and acetone to dehydrate
them. I then plan to critical point dry and sputter coat. I
have been advised that this should work and am also following the techniques
carried out by Flechtmann & McMurtry (1992) - see below. If you
would like any more information about what I am doing let me know.
Our critical point dryer is out of operation at the moment but when it
is up and running again, I'll let you know if this method works!
Regards
Rebecca
Ref: Flechtmann, H.W. & McMurtry
J.A. 1992. Studies of cheliceral and deutosternal morphology
of some Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) by scanning electron microscopy.
International Journal of Acarology. 18 (3), 163-169.
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Rebecca Jolly
(PhD student)
Entomology Department
Horticulture Research International
East Malling
Kent ME19 6BJ
ENGLAND
Tel: +01732 843833 Fax: +01732
849067
E-mail: rebecca.jolly@hri.ac.uk
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______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: Critical point/spider mites-phytoseiids
Author: Liliana Monetti <monetti@mdp.edu.ar> at INTERNET-MAIL
Date: 20/05/98 00:24
Dear all,=20
I=B4m planning to take some SEM pictures of spider mites and
phytoseiids, adults and immatures. Since immatures of phytoseiids and also
all the stages of spider mites are quite soft, they might need a treatment
with critical point or something like that. The technician at the SEM could
not help me
about the substances or the procedure to use so... Can anyone of you
give me any help?=20
If you already have taken some pictures of immature phytoseiid or spider
mites (or similar), please, just tell me...=20
-what did you use to dehydrate specimens?
-which concentration/s did you use?
-Do you have any 'recipe' that can help me?
I would really appreciate any comment about it.
Thanks all!
Liliana
'El miedo seca la boca, moja las manos y mutila. El miedo de saber
nos=20 condena a la ignorancia; el miedo de hacer nos reduce a la
impotencia.=20 La dictadura militar, miedo de escuchar, miedo de decir,
nos convirti=F3=20 en sordomudos. Ahora la democracia, que tiene miedo
de recordar, nos=20 enferma de amnesia; pero no se necesita ser Sigmund
Freud para saber=20 que no hay alfombra que pueda ocultar la basura de
la memoria.'
Eduardo Galeano,
El Libro de los Abrazos =20
*******************************************************************************
Liliana N. Monetti
=20
Lab. de Artr=F3podos, Depto. De Biolog=EDa
==20
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
Funes 3350 - (7600) Mar del Plata
Argentina
Phone # 54-23-752426 (work); 54-23-736528
(home); Fax # 54-23-753150
*******************************************************************************
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Liliana Monetti wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I´m planning to take some SEM pictures of spider mites and
phytoseiids, adults and immatures.
> Since immatures of phytoseiids and also all the stages of spider
mites are quite soft, they might
> need a treatment with critical point or something like that. The
technician at the SEM could not
> help me about the substances or the procedure to use so... Can anyone
of you give me any help?
> If you already have taken some pictures of immature phytoseiid or
spider mites (or similar), please,
> just tell me...
> -what did you use to dehydrate specimens?
> -which concentration/s did you use?
> -Do you have any 'recipe' that can help me?
>
In collaboration with colleagues of mine I tried various techniques
of soft tiny specimens (mites, Trichogramma sp.) preparation for SEM several
years ago. Critical-point drying usually resulted in collapse of the body.
Good results were sometimes obtained by slow freeze-drying technique but
it takes long time.
I finaly used diethyl-ether to dry the material. It was originally described
as a method for preparation of insect larvae (see references below) but
can be applied to mites as well. The method is based on
fixation of specimen in alcohol after which it is transfered to ether.
After having been thoroughly soaked in ether, the specimen is warmed (we
used temperature about 60 degress C) to cause expansion of the gas within
its body and consequent distention. The heat must be carefully applied
and maintained for a few minutes until the specimen has dried in an inflated
condition (the alternative is to apply heat of a lamp while observing the
process under dissection microscope). I obtained good results with application
of this method to phytoseiid mites as well as tiny eriophyid
mites.
@Article{ mcrae:using,
author = {McRae, T.
},
title = {Using
diethyl-ether to prepare dried insect material},
journal = {News Bulletin},
year =
1987,
volume = 14,
number = 9,
pages = "135-137",}
@Article{ valentine:on,
author = {Valentine,
J. M.},
title = {On
the preparation and preservation of insects, with particular reference
to coleptera.},
journal = {Smithsonian Miscellaneous
Collections},
year =
1942,
volume = 103,
number = 6,
pages = "14-16",
}
Best wishes,
Rostislav Zemek
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Rostislav Zemek Phone : 00420-38-777 5227
Institute of Entomology
Branisovska 31 Fax : 00420-38-43625
370 05 Ceske Budejovice
Czech Republic E-mail: rosta@acarus.entu.cas.cz
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subject. As collection manager of the mite collection of the National Collection
of Arachnida the person will be responsible for: collecting and mounting
of mites; curation of the mite collection and updating of collection database.
The person would also be involved in field work and the presentation and
organization of courses. Previous experience in Acarology and skills in
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Closing date for exclusive internal ARC applications is 15 June 1998,
and for ARC and external applications 15 July 1998.
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From: <Z.Zhang@nhm.ac.uk>
To: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date: 5/21/98 11:19am
Subject: Re: Critical point/spider mites-phytoseiids
from Enrico de Lillo <delillo@agr.uniba.it>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:26:28 +0100
To: monetti@mdp.edu.ar
From: Enrico de Lillo <delillo@agr.uniba.it>
Subject: Re: Critical point/spider mites-phytoseiids
Cc: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
I have an old Cambridge S100 that has been giving me a lot of troubles (it is ancient age - it was bought in 1984) and I can get good pictures (see attachments) with a very simple technique in which no critical point has been utilized as rule (because I don't have the tools). To take those pictures I need two things: 1) a SEM provided with a turbomolecular pump, 2) a low accelerating voltage (maximum 5 kV).
The protocol is very simple and fast:
1) take a stub and put on it a drop of bistilled water;
2) transfer the mite/s on the drop of water;
3) kill the mites with a gas (chlorophorm, ethyl acetate, or others);
4) take off the water by means of a piece of clinex or similar, taking care that the mites will not be removed; you can take off not all water at the beginning, then you can place the mites in good position and then you can take off the water completely;
5) put in the SEM chamber, observe and take pictures.
Pay attention that you can work with those specimens not for a long time (max 10 minutes) because the mites can be disidrated and can be magnetized. But I can ensure you about the results after a brief period of experience.
The protocol needs about 10 minutes insetad of a day or more using critical point; the results are more or less the same. This technique was arranged by Nuzzaci and Vovlas in 1976.
I have got very good results on Eriophyoids (I've been working on them since 1986, Phytoseiids, spider mites, larvae, eggs, insects, nematods, and so on).
Sincerely yours,
Enrico
Dear colleagues,
By now all the people who are participating in the 10th International Congress of Acarology should have received confirmation of their attendance, or will receive it in the next day or two.
For those people who intend to come to the Congress but have not yet registered and paid for their registration, please do so without delay so we can finalise bookings for accommodation and other facilities.
We look forward to meeting you all in July.
Bruce Halliday
For information on the 10th International Congress of Acarology, July 1998, go to
http://www.uq.oz.au/entomology/mite.conf.html or e-mail acarology@acts.ccmail.compuserve.com
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Dr. R. B. Halliday
CSIRO Division of Entomology
GPO Box 1700
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
Email bruceh@ento.csiro.au
Telephone (02) 6246 4085 International 61-2-6246 4085
Fax (02) 6246 4000 International 61-2-6246 4000
http://www.ento.csiro.au/research/natres/natres.html
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Dear Acarologists,
The second announcement of "4th International Symposium on Population Dynamics of Plant-Inhabiting Mites" is now available from the following URL:
http://www.affrc.go.jp:8001/acari/Population_Dynamics/second_announcement.html
The complete contents are shown below for people who does not have web-browser.
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4th International Symposium on Population Dynamics of Plant-Inhabiting Mites
(Second Announcement, 22 May, 1998)
Kyoto, Japan, May 10- 14, 1999
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We are very pleased to announce that the 4th International Symposium on Population Dynamics of Plant-Inhabiting Mites will be held in Kyoto, Japan, on May 10-14, 1999, in a small conference hall (Shiran Kaikan), close toKyoto University.
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The Symposium
This Symposium is a follow-up of the three previous symposia. The first (1987) and second (1991) ones were convened by Prof. M. W. Sabelis in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the third (1995) one by Prof. G. Nachman in Gilleleje, Denmark. The three previous symposia consisted of a small number of participants, less than 100 people, and all were very successful and stimulating meetings, with intensive discussions on selected topics.
This Symposium has been traditionally named "Population Dynamics of Mites". However, it has covered almost all areas of acarology: ecology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, pest management, chemical ecology, behavior, and so on. Thus, the Symposium aims to bring together scientists in various research fields, to exchange ideas and to stimulate future research. We look forward to seeing you in Kyoto in 1999.
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Structure of the Symposium
The Symposium consists of three types of sessions:
(1) Morning sessions composed of lectures on selected topics presented
by invited speakers.
(2) Afternoon sessions by oral presentations, open to all participants.
(3) Poster sessions.
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Main Symposium Topics (morning sessions) and the Tentative Invited Speakers
1. Life-history evolution
D. Margolies (USA)
2. Behavior and plant-herbivore-predator interactions
A. Janssen (The Netherlands), M. A. Sabelis (The Netherlands)
3. Biological control and IPM
To be announced
4. Genetic systems and molecular biology
M. A. Hoy (USA), M. Navajas (France)
5. Acarology in Asia
Z. Y. Xuan (China), C.-C. Ho (Taiwan)
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Tentative Program
May 10 (Monday) :
Registration (4 - 6 pm)
Get-together-Party (6 - 8 pm, free)
May 11 (Tuesday):
Morning; Presentations by invited speakers
and other speakers of similar interest
Afternoon; Oral presentations (open to all
participants)
Poster Session (9 am - 5 pm, open to
all participants)
May 12 (Wednesday)
Morning; Presentations by invited speakers
and other speakers of similar interest
Afternoon; Oral presentations (open to all
participants)
Poster Session (9 am - 5 pm, open to all participants)
May 13 (Thursday)
Morning; Presentations by invited speakers
and other speakers of similar interest
Afternoon; Oral presentations (open to all
participants)
Poster Session (9 am - 4 pm, open to all participants)
Symposium Dinner (6 - 8 pm)
May 14 (Friday)
Morning; Presentations of invited speakers
and other speakers of similar interest
Afternoon; Oral presentations (open to all
participants)
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Organizing Committee
The organizing committee consists of A. Takafuji (Kyoto Univ., Japan), M. W. Sabelis (Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), A. Janssen (Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), G. Nachman (Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark) and D. Harmsen (Queen's Univ., Canada)
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Local Organizing Committee
Akio Takafuji (Kyoto Univ.) takafuji@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Hiroshi Amano (Chiba Univ.) amano@midori.h.chiba-u.ac.jp
Tetsuo Gotoh (Ibaraki Univ.) gotoh@agr.ibaraki.ac.jp
Masahiro Osakabe (National Agriculture Research Center) mhosaka@narc.affrc.go.jp
Yutaka Saito (Hokkaido Univ.) yutsat@res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp
Junji Takabayashi (Kyoto Univ.) junji@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Kaichi Furuhashi (Shizuoka Pref.)
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Costs (in Japanese Yen; 1 US dollar is about 135 yen)
(1) Registration fee (including the proceedings of the Symposium)
Regular participant
25,000 yen
Student (attach a letter from advisor)
20,000 yen
Accompanying person
free
(2) Accomodations (including tax and service charges; no meals are included; number of rooms of Kyodai-kaikan is limited)
Kyodai Kaikan (5 minutes' walk)
Single
Room 6,300 yen
Double
Room 11,500 yen
Shiran Kaikan
Single Room 6,930 yen
Double
Room 12,700 yen
Holiday Inn Kyoto (20 minutes' walk)
Single
Room 11,500 yen
Double
Room 16,100 yen
(3) Symposium dinner (May 13)
5,000 yen
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The registration form and the presentation form
* The registration form
* The presentation form
The registration form and the presentation form, together with the abstract (if you wish to present a paper) should be sent not later than December 31, 1998 to:
Akio Takafuji, The Symposium Secretary
Laboratory of Ecological Information, Graduate
School of
Agriculture
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Tel: (81)-75-753-6135
Fax: (81)-75-753-6474
E-mail: takafuji@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Please note that that only participants whose payment has been received
by December 31, 1998, will be accepted at the Symposium.
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Further Information
If you would like to receive further information, please contact:
Akio Takafuji (The Symposium Secretariat)
Laboratory of Ecological Information, Graduate
School of
Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502,
Japan
E-mail: takafuji@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Facsimile: +81-75-753-6474
Telephone: +81-75-753-6135
Information about the Symposium is also available from:
http://www.affrc.go.jp:8001/acari/danigaku.html or
http://www.affrc.go.jp:8001/acari/Population_Dynamics/second_announcement.html
You can also contact the local organizing committee listed above for more information about the symposium topics.
---Please inform colleagues and students about this symposium---
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Symposium Registration Form
4th International Symposium on Population Dynamics
of Plant-Inhabiting Mites
Kyoto, May 10-14, 1999
Family name _____________________________________________________________________
First name (s) ___________________________________________________________________
Mailing Address __________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
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Fax:_______________________________ Tel:_______________________________
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_ Holiday Inn Kyoto
_ Single room:
11,500 yen x _ night(s) = _________ yen
_ Double room:
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Subtotal (B) _________ yen
Symposium dinner (May 13, each 5,000 yen) :
Number of persons _______________
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TOTAL= (A) + (B) + (C) = ___________________ yen
The total payment must be made in Japanese Yen and be transferred to: Account number (1991979); Account name (Mite Symposium Committee, Representative Akio Takafuji), Bank name and address (The Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank Ltd, Hyakumanben Branch, 1 Izumidono-cho, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Date: ___________________ Signature: ______________________________________
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Presentation Form
4th International Symposium on Population Dynamics on Plant-Inhabiting Mites
Presentations
Author(s) of Presentation: _________________________________________________________
Affiliation: _____________________________________________________________________
Title of Presentation: ____________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
I/We wish to present : _ oral _ poster
Preparation of the Abstract
The abstract must be typed, single-spaced in 12 points on a single A4 paper (approximately 21 x 30 cm), with at least 3cm margins. It should include the names and affiliations of all authors, as shown below. The written abstract will be reproduced in the same size as typed.
Example:
Electorophoretic detection of enzyme variations among Japanese red-colored spider mites of the genus Tetranychus (Acari: Tetranychidae)
Kouichi Goka (a) and Akio Takafuji (b) a National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan b Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
The genetic variation in PGI and MDH was studied in red-pigmented spider
mites of the genus Tetranychus by means of poly-acrylamide gel electrophoresis.
The analysis revealed that Tetranychus kanzawai possesses five and three
alleles for PGI and MDH,
respectively and that PGI allele frequencies clearly differ between
Hokkaido and Honshu populations. ....
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The registration form and the presentation form, together with the abstract (if you wish to present a paper) should be sent not later than December 31, 1998 to:
Akio Takafuji, The Symposium Secretary
Laboratory of Ecological Information, Graduate School of Agriculture
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Tel: (81)-75-753-6135
Fax: (81)-75-753-6474
E-mail: takafuji@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Please note that that only participants whose payment has been received by December 31, 1998, will be accepted at the Symposium.
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Norihide HINOMOTO
Laboratory of Natural Enemy Breeding
National Institute of Sericultural and Entomological Science
e-mail: hinomoto@nises.affrc.go.jp
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Received. A lot of thanks.
From: "Louise Coetzee" <acarol@nasmus.co.za>
To: <acarology@nhm.ac.uk>
Subject: address
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 08:55:28 +0200
Can anybody help me with the e-mail address of Dr Malcolm Luxton.
Thanks,
Louise Coetzee
__________________________________________
Louise Coetzee
Tel: +27-51-4479609
Dept. of Acarology
Fax: +27-51-4476273
National Museum
acarol@nasmus.co.za
P.O. Box 266
Bloemfontein 9300
South Africa
Dear all,
THANKS A LOT to all the mite people that helped me with critical point,
give me advice and tell me the 'secret tricks' to take good pictures. I´ll
let you know about my results as soon as I have them! (we have to travel
400km to the nearest SEM so we don´t have an appointment ´til
july).
Good luck!
Liliana
'El miedo seca la boca, moja las manos y mutila. El miedo de saber
nos condena a la ignorancia; el miedo de hacer nos reduce a la impotencia.
La dictadura militar, miedo de escuchar, miedo de decir, nos convirtió
en sordomudos. Ahora la democracia, que tiene miedo de recordar, nos enferma
de amnesia; pero no se necesita ser Sigmund Freud para saber que no hay
alfombra que pueda ocultar la basura de la memoria.'
Eduardo Galeano,
El Libro de los Abrazos
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Liliana N. Monetti
Lab. de Artrópodos, Depto. De Biología
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
Funes 3350 - (7600) Mar del Plata
Argentina
Phone # 54-23-752426 (work); 54-23-736528
(home); Fax # 54-23-753150
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Sorry to be a nuisance.
I am a birdwatcher dabbling in bird parasites. I have been trying to identify Proctophyllodid mites using Atyeo & Braasch 1966. Many specimens - from S. England - just don't look right even though I am 99% sure that they are Proctophyllodes and have done some scanning electron microscopy.
Are there more recent references? I've tried BIDS with little joy.
Are there any people out there interested in this genus?
Problem species are on bird hosts such as house sparrow, tree sparrow, blue tit, chaffinch.
Dr David Harper
david@susx.ac.uk
As far as I am aware Malcolm does not have an email address - his postal address is:-
c/o Department of Zoology
National Museum of Wales
Cathays Park
Cardiff
Wales
CF1 3NP
where he has a desk in the basement
Good luck
Clive
________________________________________________________________________
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Live Data Process Ltd., 4 Nicholsons Lane, MAIDENHEAD,
Berkshire, SL6 1HR, United Kingdom
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Tel: +44 - 1628 675353
Fax: +44- 1628 547525
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Z.Zhang@nhm.ac.uk [SMTP:Z.Zhang@nhm.ac.uk]
> Sent: 27 May 1998 17:07
> To: acarology@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: address
>
> From: "Louise Coetzee" <acarol@nasmus.co.za>
> To: <acarology@nhm.ac.uk>
> Subject: address
> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 08:55:28 +0200
>
> Can anybody help me with the e-mail address of Dr Malcolm Luxton.
Thanks,
> Louise Coetzee
> __________________________________________
> Louise Coetzee
Tel: +27-51-4479609
> Dept. of Acarology
Fax: +27-51-4476273
> National Museum
acarol@nasmus.co.za
> P.O. Box 266
> Bloemfontein 9300
> South Africa
>
>
CC: "'acarol@nasmus.co.za'" <acarol@nasmus.co.za>, "'P...
I would like to get information about Acari serine proteinases.
Thank very much in advance.
At 7:38 AM +0100 5/28/98, David Harper wrote:
>Sorry to be a nuisance........... I have been trying to identify
Proctophyllodid mites using Atyeo &
>Braasch 1966.
>>Are there more recent references? Are there any people out there
interested in this genus?
>
Dear Dr. Harper - The monograph by Atyeo & Braasch is the most
recent compilation, although there have been a number of new species described
since that work. You should contact Dr. Sergei Mironov, Zoological
Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, who has
been the most active worker with these mites in recent years. He
should be most familiar with the European fauna.
Barry M. OConnor
phone: (734) 763-4354
Museum of Zoology
FAX: (734) 763-4080
University of Michigan
e-mail: bmoc@umich.edu
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 USA