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VI International
Symposium on Tardigrada
The
congress, held by the British Antarctic Survey,
was attended by
45 researchers
from
10 countries from
four continents (from Asia, Europe, North America and Australia). During
the three days of the conference
29 talks (in 5 thematic sessions) and
17 posters (in a single session) were presented.
This was the first and the only so far
Symposium held in the UK. Also, this was the first ever tardigrade
conference to have participants from Asia and Australia, and to have
posters in addition to talks as a form of result presentation.
Apart from the official Symposium organiser,
Sandra McInnes, her
parents, Helen and
Archie McInnes, need to be
acknowledged for their input in the conference organisation.
Table of contents
Logo
Dates
Place
Venue
Organisers
Participants
Group photo
Programme
Proceedings
Booklets
Photos
Logo
The Symposium logo, designed by
Tony Sylvester (British Antarctic Survey), shows six individuals
of Echiniscus macronyx.
Dates
22-26
August 1994.
Place
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.
World Map from
Wikipedia.
Venue
Selwyn College, University of
Cambridge.
Organiser
Sandra
McInnes (British Antarctic
Survey, UK).
Participants (alphabetically)
Adkins, R.G. (USA)
Assuncao, C.M. (Brazil)
Beasley, C.W. (USA)
Bertolani, R. (Italy)
Biserov, V.I. (Russia)
Biserova, N. (Russia)
Catchpole, C. (UK)
Claxton, S.K. (Australia)
Dahl, C. (Denmark)
Dastych, H. (Germany)
Dewel, W.C. (USA)
Dewel, R.A. (USA)
Eibye-Jacobsen, J. (Denmark)
Ellis-Evans, J.C. (UK)
Furches, L. (USA)
Grabowski, B. (Germany)
Greaves, P. (UK)
Greensdale, P. (UK)
Greven, H. (Germany)
Gross Hanning, J. (Australia)
Grøngaard, A. (Denmark)
Guidi, A. (Italy)
Hale, G.T. (USA)
Horning Jr., D.S. (Australia)
Kathman, R.D. (USA)
Kendall-Fite, K. (USA)
Kinchin, I. (UK)
Kristensen, R.M. (Denmark)
Kristensen, N.M. (Denmark)
Mackness, B. (Australia)
Marley, N. (UK)
Maucci, W. (Italy)
McInnes, S.J. (UK)
Meier, T. (Norway)
Miller, W.R. (USA)
Nelson, D.R. (USA)
Noda, H. (Japan)
Pugh, P.J.A. (UK)
Rebecchi, L. (Italy)
Robinson, K. (UK)
Utsugi, K. (Japan)
Villora-Moreno, S. (France)
Walossek, D. (Germany)
Ward, J. (UK)
Wright, D.E. (UK)
Group photo
Photo by
C. Gilbert (British
Antarctic Survey).
Programme
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Monday
(22.08.1994) |
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09:00-17:30 |
Registration |
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19:00 |
Reception
buffet (Senior Common Room of the Selwyn College) |
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Tuesday (23.08.1994) |
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TARDIGRADE ANATOMY AND
PHYSIOLOGY |
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Chair:
R. Bertolani (Italy) |
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09:00-09:20 |
S.K. Claxton |
Sexual dimorphism amongst
Australian Echiniscus (Tardigrada, Echiniscidae) species |
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09:20-09:40 |
R.A. Dewel & W.C. Dewel |
The brain of Echiniscus
viridissimus (Heterotardigrada) |
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09:40-10:00 |
J. Eibye-Jacobsen |
Development, ultrastructure and
function of the tardigrade pharynx |
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10:00-10:20 |
A. Guidi & L. Rebecchi |
Spermatozoon morphology is a
character for Tardigrada systematics |
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10:20-10:40 |
Tea/Coffee |
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Chair:
R.M. Kristensen (Denmark) |
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10:40-11:00 |
N.M. Kristensen & C. Dahl |
Studies on the morphology and
ultrastructure of the malpighian tubules of Halobiotus
crispae Kristensen,
1982 |
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11:00-11:20 |
B.S. Mackness, J.
Gross & R. Walis. |
Three-dimensional tomography of
tardigrades using confocal laser microscopy |
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11:20-11:40 |
N.J. Marley & D.E. Wight |
The anatomy and histology of
Amphibolus weglarskae Dastych (Eohypsibiidae, Parachela,
Eutardigrada, Tardigrada) |
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11:40-12:00 |
H. Wiederhöft & H. Greven |
The cerebral ganglion of
Milnesium tardigradum
Doyère
(Apochela, Tardigrada): three dimensional reconstruction and
notes on its ultrastructure |
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12:00-12:10 |
Close of session |
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12:10-13:20 |
Lunch |
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TARDIGRADE DISTRIBUTION |
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Chair:
W.C. Dewel (USA) |
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13:20-13:40 |
R.G. Adkins & D.R. Nelson |
An ecological survey of
tardigrades from Greene Mountain, Tennessee |
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13:40-14:00 |
K.L. Kendall-Fite & D.R. Nelson |
Two new species of tardigrades
from Short Mountain Tennessee |
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14:00-14:20 |
D.R. Nelson & G. Hale |
A preliminary report on the
Tardigrada of the Inside Passage, Alaska |
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14:20-14:40 |
C.W. Beasley |
Tardigrades from southern Yunnan
Province, People's Republic of China |
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14:40-15:00 |
V.I. Biserov |
Tardigrades of the Taimyr
Peninsula |
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15:00-15:20 |
Tea/Coffee |
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15:20-15:40 |
H. Dastych |
A survey of the Himalayan
tardigrades |
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15:40-16:00 |
A. Grøngaard |
Tardigrades from the Greenland ice
sheet |
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16:00-16:10 |
Close of session |
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17:00-19:00 |
Walking tour of Cambridge and
Punting along the Backs |
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19:30 |
Supper (Great Hall of the
Selwyn College) |
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Wednesday (24.08.1994) |
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TARDIGRADE ECOLOGY |
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Chair:
I. Kinchin (UK) |
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09:00-09:20 |
R. Bertolani & L. Rebecchi |
Multihabitat study on high
altitude tardigrades from a northern Apennines valley (Italy) |
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09:20-09:40 |
B. Grabowski |
Ecological investigations on
moss-dwelling tardigrades (Tardigrada) from Hesse (Germany)
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09:40-10:00 |
B.S. Mackness |
A quantitative study of
tardigrades in an elevated moss community. I. Spatial
distribution and densities. |
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10:00-10:20 |
G.E. Kraft |
Biological aspects of
Pseudobiotus megalonyx (Thulin, 1928) (Tardigrada.
Eutardigrada) and other freshwater intertidal tardigrades of the
Elbe River, after an oil spill |
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10:20-10:40 |
Tea/Coffee |
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TARDIGRADE SYSTEMATICS |
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Chair:
D.R. Nelson (USA) |
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10:40-11:00 |
S. Garagna, L. Rebecchi & A. Guidi |
Genome size variations in
Tardigrada |
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11:00-11:20 |
R.M. Kristensen |
The phylogenetic position of the
Tardigrada |
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11:20-11:40 |
D. Walossek, K.J. Milller & R.M.
Kristensen. |
A more than half a billion year
old stem-group tardigrade from Siberia |
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11:40-12:00 |
S.K. Claxton |
Ten new species of Minibiotus
(Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae) from Australia: Is Minibiotus
intermedius Plate, 1889, cosmopolitan? |
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12:00-12:20 |
R.M. Kristensen & B.S. Mackness |
A review of the marine tardigrades
of Australia, with description of two new species from the Coral
Sea |
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12:20-12:30 |
Close of session |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-17:00 |
Visit to British Antarctic
Survey/Free time |
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Thursday (25.08.1994) |
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TARDIGRADE DISTRIBUTION |
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Chair:
C.W. Beasley (USA) |
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09:00-09:20 |
N.J. Marley & D.E. Wight |
Some notes on the Arctic
Tardigrada of Canada and Alaska, including a new addition to the
North American fauna |
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09:20-09:40 |
W. Maucci |
Some data on Tardigrada of Arctic
and Sub-Arctic tundra |
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09:40-10:00 |
W.R. Miller, J.D. Miller & H.F.
Heatwole |
Tardigrades of the Australian
Antarctic territories: Casey Base, East Antarctica |
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10:00-10:20 |
S. Villora-Moreno & S. de Zio
Grimaldi |
New records on marine Tardigrada
in the Mediterranean Sea |
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10:20-10:40 |
D.R. Nelson & K.L. McGlothlin |
Two new species of tardigrades
from Roan Mountain, Tennessee-North Carolina |
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10:40-11:00 |
Tea/Coffee |
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11:00-12:20 |
POSTER SESSION |
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12:20-12:30 |
Close of session |
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12:30-13:40 |
Lunch |
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13:40-15:20 |
Workshop "Methods &
Techniques" lead by P.M.
Greaves |
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15:20-15:40 |
Tea/Coffee |
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15:40-17:20 |
Workshop "Phylogeny of
Tardigrada" lead by R.M.
Kristensen & R.A. Dewel |
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17:20-17:30 |
Close of session |
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19:30-20:00 |
Sherry in Selwyn College
Gardens (weather permitting) |
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20:00 |
The Symposium Dinner (Senior
Common Room of the Selwyn College) |
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Friday (26.08.1994) |
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09:00-10:30 |
Confocal presentations |
POSTER SESSION
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TARDIGRADE
SYSTEMATICS |
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C.M.L. Assuncao & M.L.
Christoffersen |
Phylogenetic analysis of the
Tardigrada |
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R. Bertolani, L. Rebecchi &
S. Claxton |
Phylogenetic significance of egg
variation in tardigrades. . |
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S.Y. Moon |
Phylogenetic position of the
Tardigrada based on the 18S ribosomal RNA gene sequences |
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TARDIGRADE ANATOMY AND
PHYSIOLOGY |
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N.M. Biserova |
On the fine structure of
Richtersius coronifer (Richters, 1903). |
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I.M. Kinchin |
Morphometric analysis of
Ramazzottius varieornatus (Hypsibiidae, Eutardigrada) |
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N.J. Marley & P.M. Russell |
Visualisation of the surface
sculpturing of the tardigrade, Pseudechiniscus suillus
(Ehrenberg), explored
with enhanced light microscopy techniques |
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S.J. McInnes, P.J.A.
Pugh & K. Robinson |
Diversity of egg surface
morphology in the family Macrobiotidae (Tardigrada) |
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S.J. McInnes, P.J.A.
Pugh & K. Robinson |
The effects of relative humidity
on eggs of Dactylobiotus ambiguus (Macrobiotidae: Tardigrada)
from freshwater lakes in Maritime Antarctic |
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G. Pilato |
The theory of the mesoderm
secondary layer and the enterocoely in the tardigrades |
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TARDIGRADE ECOLOGY |
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S. Villora-Morcno & M.
Garcia-Carrascosa |
Environmental heterogenity and the
biodiversity of marine Tardigrada |
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TARDIGRADE DISTRIBUTION |
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P.M. Greaves |
James Murray and his work on
tardigrades |
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B.S. Mackness |
A bibliography of the Tardigrada |
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B.S. Mackness |
A biography of tardigrade workers |
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N.J. Marley & D.E. Wight |
The Eutardigrade symphoriant,
Pyxidium tardigradum Van der Land, its European distribution
and host specificity |
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T. Meier |
A preliminary report of Tardigrada
from Norway |
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H. Noda |
Two Renaudarctids
(Arthrotardigrada) from Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. |
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K. Utsugi |
Distribution or Heterotardigrades
in Japan |
Proceedings
The Symposium talks have been published in a
special volume of the 'Zoological
Journal of the Linnean Society'. The volume contains 18
scientific papers on tardigrade
morphology, anatomy, taxonomy, phylogeny, faunistics, biogeography,
ecology, life histories and cytology. The symposium proceedings are
dedicated to the memory and work of Professor
Walter Maucci.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
vol. 116(1-2), 1996
Proceedings of
the Sixth International Symposium on Tardigrada
S. McInnes
(Guest Editor)
COVER
CONTENTS
(click paper titles to open full texts in PDF)
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PAGES |
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McInnes, S.J. Foreword. |
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Bertolani, R. & Rebecchi,
L. The tardigrades of Emilia (Italy).
II. Monte Rondinaio. A multihabitat study on a high altitude
valley of the northern Apennines. |
3-12 |
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Claxton, S.K. Sexual dimorphism in Australian
Echiniscus (Tardigrada, Echiniscidae) with descriptions of three
new species. |
13-34 |
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Dewel, R.A. & Dewel, W.C. The brain of
Echiniscus viridissimus Peterfi, 1956 (Heterotardigrada): a key to
understanding the phylogenetic position of tardigrades and the
evolution of the arthropod head. |
35-49 |
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Kinchin, I.M. Morphometric analysis of
Ramazzottius varieornatus (Hypsibiidae: Eutardigrada). |
51-60 |
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Moon, S.Y. & Kim, W. Phylogenetic position of the
Tardigrada based on the 18S ribosomal RNA gene sequences. |
61-69 |
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Wiederhoft, H. & Greven,
H. The cerebral ganglia of Milnesium
tardigradum Doyere (Apochela, Tardigrada): Three dimensional
reconstruction and notes on their ultrastructure. |
71-84 |
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Mobjerg, N. & Dahl, C. Studies on the morphology and
ultrastructure of the Malpighian tubules of Halobiotus crispae
Kristensen, 1982 (Eutardigrada). |
85-99 |
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Guidi, A & Rebecchi, L. Spermatozoan morphology as a
character for tardigrade systematics: comparison with sclerified
parts of animals and eggs in eutardigrades. |
101-113 |
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Garagna, S., Rebecchi, L.
& Guidi, A. Genome size variation in
Tardigrada. |
115-121 |
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Eibye-Jacobsen, J. On the nature of pharyngeal muscle
cells in the Tardigrada. |
123-138 |
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Bertolani, R. Rebecchi,
L. & Claxton, S.K. Phylogenetic significance of egg
shell variation in tardigrades. |
139-148 |
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Villora-Moreno, S. & de
Zio Grimaldi, S. New records of marine Tardigrada in
the Mediterranean Sea. |
149-166 |
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Nelson, D.R. &
McGlothlin, K.L. A new species of Calohypsibius
(Phylum Tardigrada, Eutardigrada) from Roan Mountain,
Tennessee-North Carolina, U.S.A. |
167-174 |
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Miller, W.R., Miller,
J.D. & Heatwole, H. Tardigrades of the Australian
Antarctic Territories: the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica. |
175-184 |
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Maucci, W. Tardigrada of the Arctic tundra
with descriptions of two new species. |
185-204 |
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Kendall-Fite, K. &
Nelson, D.R. Two new species of tardigrades from
Short Mountain, Tennessee, U.S.A. |
205-214 |
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Biserov, V.I. Tardigrades of the Taimyr peninsula
with descriptions of two new species. |
215-237 |
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Beasley, C.W. &
Cleveland, A. Tardigrada from southern Yunnan
Province, People's Republic of China. |
239-243 |
Booklets
Click here to download the booklet with the programme, abstracts and
other Symposium info.
Additionally you can read
the first
circular with the registration form (you'll see that originally the
Symposium was supposed to incorporate presentations on Gastrotricha) and
the second
flyer that contained the list of participants and the initial conference
programme.
Photos
By
Archie McInnes.
If you have more photos from the Symposium and
you would like to share them with others, please
send them to us and we will put them on the website.
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