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ABOL meeting – held on 20th of October 2017 only

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Dear ABOL community & all interested people,

to avoid synchrony with the ÖEG Fachgespräche (October 21st, 2017, BOKU) the ABOL meeting will take place on October 20th, 2017 from 9:00 to ca. 20:00.

We will start with talks, a panel discussion and a poster session. In the afternoon two public talks will be followed by a get-together with snacks and plenty of opportunity for chatting.

The meeting will be held in English, the public talks in German.
The contribution fee of € 15,- can be paid on site (free for students).

Please note that registration is open. For poster presentations please send title and abstract to Michaela Sonnleitner (abol.msonnleitner@gmail.com).

Best regards,

your ABOL team

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ABOL meeting 2017 – reminder

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Dear ABOL community & all interested people,

we would like to remind you that this years´ABOL meeting takes place on 20th and 21st of October in the Natural History Museum Vienna. We will look back at the past 3 years of the initial phase and especially look forward to the future of the ABOL-Initiative.

Two public talks will be held on the first day, followed the second day by more specific talks and reports as well as a panel discussion on DNA-barcoding. A detailed programm will be provided soon.

The contribution fee of € 15,- can be paid on site (free for students).

Please register per e-mail to Michaela Sonnleitner (abol.msonnleitner@gmail.com).

Looking forward to a lively and interesting meeting,

the ABOL team

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ABOL meeting 2017 – Save the date!

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Dear ABOL community,

this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 20th and 21st of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. The meeting marks the transition from the pilot phase to the overall project.

Please save the date! Further information will be given in time.

Best wishes,

the ABOL-Team

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ABOL goes facebook

For all of you who are familiar with social media, we recently initiated a facebook page for ABOL!

https://www.facebook.com/AustrianBarcodeOfLife/

We cordially invite you to contribute and comment frequently. We aim at announcing news about ABOL, along with other postings of general relevance for biodiversity.

Enjoy our page!

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HRSM project start on March 1st 2017

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With March 1st the HRSM (Hochschulraumstrukturmittel) project has been launched. The project is funded with 1 Million Euro by the Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and aims at developing DNA barcoding pipelines for ABOL at universities. Commendably, the University of Graz has taken the leadership. Project partners are the University of Vienna, the University of Salzburg, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, and the University of Veterinary Medicine of Vienna. Thus, we are able to announce that the overall ABOL project has successfully started before the end of the pilot phase. However, this does not mean we may rest on our laurels – many smaller and larger projects have to be initiated to reach our long-term target, the establishment of DNA barcodes for all animal, fungi as well as plant species of Austria that these eventually can be utilized for diverse applications. To reach this goal we need the cooperation of all experts and institutions who address biodiversity!

Read more (in German)…

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Butterflies: leading role in ABOL extended

Dear ABOL community,

it is about time, to announce many new projects which have been launched recently!

In butterflies, the showcase group of ABOL, four new projects have been initiated. Two of them, “Butterflies of Vorarlberg” and “Nocturnal butterflies of the Koblacher Ried” address the lepidopteran fauna of the most western Austrian province, Vorarlberg. Both projects are funded by inatura, together with the project “Plecoptera and Trichoptera of Vorarlberg“.

Furthermore we could convince the private foundation of REWE “Blühendes Österreich” to support DNA barcoding of “Butterflies from Austria“.

Last but not least, DNA barcodes of butterflies of Lower Austria are generated focusing on Noctuidea. The project “NOENO – Noctuoidea of Lower Austria” is funded by the Niederösterreichische Landessammlungen and Ökoplus.

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ABOL meeting Linz 2016

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Dear ABOL community,

this year again our ABOL meeting took place at the Schlossmuseum Linz – we would like to thank the people from the Upper Austrian State Museums for hosting! We are very happy, that so many of you joined the meeting. A special thank to all the speakers for the interesting talks concerning this year’s main topic “Applied aspects of DNA barcoding”. The talks provided a comprehensive overview of the power of DNA barcoding and stimulated lively discussions.
We hope, that the meeting was interesting and successful for all participants and provided sufficient space for conversations and networking.
Please find some impressions in our picture gallery (photo credits by F. Gusenleitner, H. Sattmann, M. Sonnleitner)

Best wishes,
your ABOL team

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Major study on species delimitation in Lepidoptera via DNA barcodes

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A fascinating recent publication deals with the potential of species delimitation in Lepidoptera via CO1. An international cooperation, with the participation of experts from the Tyrolean State Museums, could show that DNA barcoding is an efficient approach to determine the vast majority of European Lepidoptera.

Every determination is eased by reciprocal monophyly between species. In the absence of the latter experts are in demand to find possible explanations. The publication gives a nice overview on possible reasons for observed para- and polyphyly between species.

Reference:

Mutanen, M. et al. (2016). Species-Level Para- and Polyphyly in DNA Barcode Gene Trees: Strong Operational Bias in European Lepidoptera. Systematic Biology, 65(6), 1024–1040.

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Increase of international comparability by DNA-Barcoding

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

ancylis_christiandiana02_tlm_eckelt_kleinReferences:

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

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

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

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Dear supporters of ABOL!

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

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

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