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124, May 1999 PSAMMONALIA Newsletter of the International Association of Meiobenthologists Number 124, May 1999 Composed and Printed at Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University Shirahama cho, Wakayama Prefecture, 649-2211, Japan To dig or to crawl, that is the question This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes Page 2 Editor: Yoshihisa Shirayama email address : [email protected] Executive Committee Yoshihisa Shirayama, Chairperson Magda Vincx, Past Chairperson, Lab. Morfologie, Universiteit Gent, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Ann Vanreusel, Treasurer, Lab. Morfologie, Universiteit Gent, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Robert Feller, Assistant Treasurer and Past Treasurer, Belle Baruch Institute for Marine Science and Coastal Research, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208, USA Gunter Arlt, Term Expires 2001, Rostock University, Department of Biology, Rostock D18051, GERMANY Teresa Radziejewska, Term Expires 2001, Interoceanmetal Joint Organization, ul. Cyryla I Metodego 9, 71-541 Szczecin, POLAND David Thistle, Term Expires 2004, Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl. 32306-3048, USA Guy Boucher, Term Expires 2004, URA 699 CNRS, Biologie des Invertebres Marins MNHN, Pavillon Chevreul 57, Rue Cuvier 75005, Paris, France Ex-Officio Executive Committee (Past Chairpersons) Robert P. Higgins, Founding Editor, 1966-67 W. Duane Hope 1968-69 John S. Gray 1970-71 Wilfried Westheide 1972-73 Bruce C. Coull 1974-75 Jeanne Renaud-Mornant 1976-77 William D. Hummon 1978-79 Robert P. Higgins 1980-81 Carlo Heip 1982-83 Olav Giere 1984-86 John W. Fleeger 1987-89 Richard M. Warwick 1990-92 Paul A. Montagna 1993-1995 Magna Vincx, 1996-1998 Board of Correspondents Bruce Coull, Belle Baruch Institute for Marine Science and Coastal Research, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA Dan Danielopol, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Limnology, A-5310 Mondsee, Gaisberg 116, Austria Roberto Danovaro, Facoltà de Scienze, Università di Ancona, ITALY Andrew Gooday, SOC Empress Dock Southampton , UK Duane Hope, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA Tom Moens, University of Gent, Marine Biology Section, K.L. Ledeganckstr. 35, B-9000 Gent, BELGIUM Alex V. Tchesunov, Dept. Invertebrate Zoology, Biology Faculty, Moscow Lomonosov State Univ., Moscow 119899, RUSSIA Zhang Zhinan, Department of Marine Biology, Ocean University Of Qindgao, Qindgao, Shangdong, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA Susetiono, Division of marine resources, RZD centre for oceanology, Indonesian institute for sciences, Guru Guru, Poka Ambon, 97233, Indonesia You may make your donations to the Bertil Swedmark Fund directly to the IAM bank account (account number 6586667) of the Lloyds Bank (Sort code 30-96-68), 8 Royale Parade Plymouth PL1 1HB, UK. EDITORIAL BOARD Motohiro Shimanaga, Yoshihisa Shirayama Page 3 and I needed more than $10,000 to build the mold for the EDITORIAL HS slides, but other scientists need not pay such an amount. To save unnecessary effort, however, This issue is being distributed to the members do-it-yourself information must be available. Publishing via either snail mail or e-mail. Meanwhile, the previous a book as a supplement to the meiofauna manual is one issue, Psammonalia #123, will be available on our idea. However, I believe distribution of information via website in the pdf file format. The file can be read using the Internet is more effective. In this way we can also Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available freely from encourage meiobenthologists in developing countries, Adobe's website. If you have a colorprinter, the first page where funding for library acquisitions is not of #123 with its colour picture will be readily at hand. satisfactory. The above is just one example of the recent Thanks to the efforts of Keith Walter, our web astonishing development of Internet technology. It is not manager, IAM's website is getting better and better. easy for a meiobenthologist to follow the most up-to-date However, I would like to improve it even more with a lot high-tech wares, such as Java, especially if one is at a of information useful for meiobenthologists. The remote site without colleagues from the field of research tips mentioned above are an example. In information sciences. However, once connected to the addition, seminar, job, and laboratory information would Internet, one can catch up on the most up-to-date be especially useful for field scientists. Networking of information in the biological sciences at a very low cost. data among research laboratories would make the data A confirmation of these advantages is the fact that more useful; such data could comprise faunal lists, basic Internet connection is widely available even in climate information, and other information useful for the developing countries. study of taxonomy, biogeography, and biodiversity. “Introduction to the study of meiofauna” by Bob Those who wish to help us make a better website in this Higgins and Hjalmar Thiel is a bible for way, please send your information to Keith. meiobenthologists; in it they can obtain much basic information on research techniques. However, some Request for Address Information important information was omitted due to page space limitations. To rectify this, while he was president of The editor is preparing the membership IAM a decade ago, Paul Montagna tried to collect directory of IAM. Those who have not report your information on suppliers of goods necessary for the study information completely inclusive of your e-mail address, of meiobenthos. please send it via e-mail to [email protected] At that time, the lack of a supplier of Irwin The information IAM has can be checked in our web site loops was considered as a crisis. In the US a new venture at http://www.mtsu.edu/meio/ . company eventually started supplying these loops; however, because I knew how to make them, I did not ANNOUNCEMENTS need any commercial supplier. On the other hand, when I started my research on meiofauna, I could not get a Meetings depressor for Cob's aluminum frame, which is widely used to make microscope slides with two cover slips for The 29th meeting of the Association of Marine observing meiofauna from both sides of the specimen. To Laboratories of the Caribbean overcome this problem, Bob Higgins and I made a mold (AMLC) to produce a special plastic frame. Other IAM members 18th to 24th July 1999 such as David Thistle and Nicole Gourbault now also use the Instituto Oceanografico, De Venezuela, these frames. Universidad de Oriente, For nematology, the choice of best medium for Cuman, Venezuela. sealing the edge of the coverslip of a microscopic slide has been controversial. Canada Balsam and Glyceel have For additional information contact: been used widely, but production of the latter product Prof. Mary I. Segnini, Instituto Oceanografico de was halted. Recently, Jeff Bate published a paper Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente, Cuman Edo. Sucre, describing the recipe of Glyceel (The slide-sealing Venezuela, 6101A, compound "Glyceel". Journal of Nematology Telephone: (0058-93) 512276, Fax: (0058-93) 512276, 29(4):565-566); he is now distributing a small quantity 516790, E-mail: [email protected], of his own stock. [email protected], [email protected], It takes a lot of effort for meiobenthologists to [email protected] overcome problems that arise due to the lack of a source of laboratory materials. However, the necessary effort Third English Language International Nematology and costs are often within the capacity of an individual Symposium. scientist. Even if there is no supplier for Glyceel or Irwin August 21-27, 1999, loops in your country, you only need at hand a supplier Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of of basic chemicals or of thin nickel wire. Bob Higgins Sciences, Page 4 St. Petersburg. "geometric" morphometrics) occupying two more-or-less The scientific program will include the mutually exclusive sectors of the systematic community, following topics: to the detriment of both. Molecular Biology & Genetics Fortunately there are signs of an incipient Phylogeny & Systematics rapprochement between phylogenetic systematics and Control and Suppressants morphometrics. Many phylogeneticists are currently in Identification and Diagnosis the process of re-evaluating their traditional taboos Ecology and Host-Parasite Relationships regarding the use of continuously-distributed variables as Biogeography & Biodiversity a whole. At the same time some morphometricians have Methods & Techniques begun to raise the question of whether certain types of Computers & Teaching morphometric variables can be used to constrain A symposium-wide, all-day tour of the famed phylogenetic hypotheses while others have begun to Peterhoff Palace-Museum-Reserve will highlight the explore methods whereby phylogenetic information can social activities and a complete social and cultural be included in morphometric studies. 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