Editorial
This issue of the Bulletin of Entomological Research is a little different, in that it includes eight papers from a conference held last year at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, entitled ‘Molecular approaches to study trophic interactions: current progress and future directions’. Details of the...
| Published in: | Bulletin of Entomological Research |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2008
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| Online Access: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/23543/ http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=6&fid=1880556&jid=BER&volumeId=98&issueId=03&aid=1880552&fulltextType=ED&fileId=S0007485308006068 https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/23543/1/Traugott%202008.pdf https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485308006068 |
| Summary: | This issue of the Bulletin of Entomological Research is a little different, in that it includes eight papers from a conference held last year at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, entitled ‘Molecular approaches to study trophic interactions: current progress and future directions’. Details of the meeting can still be found at www.mti-symposium.at. The meeting was organised to bring together researchers in the growing fields of molecular analysis of predation and parasitism. The aim was to discuss and synthesize the latest progress in these fields, to discuss techniques, to identify promising avenues for future research and to stimulate cooperation and collaboration. A major objective was also to attract those new to, or interested in, using these approaches and to provide a workshop that would help them get started and to understand the advantages and limitations of molecular approaches. The meeting was deliberately cross-discipline, bringing together people working on vertebrates and invertebrates, terrestrial and aquatic systems, but all with a common interest in trophic relationships and their study using molecular approaches. There were over 70 researchers and students from 15 countries at this highly diverse, three-day conference. Four sessions were held and introduced by keynote speakers, each an international leader in his field: Simon Jarman (Australian Antarctic Division, Australia) introduced the session on predation in aquatic systems, and Andrew King (Cardiff University, UK) provided us with an overview on predation in terrestrial systems. The session on the analysis of blood meals was opened by Steven Torr (University of Greenwich, UK), while Matt Greenstone (USDA, USA) provided (remotely) a keynote address on molecular approaches to study endoparasitism. The keynote presentations were followed by an array of highly interesting talks, complemented by posters. This special issue of Bulletin of Entomological Research, therefore, includes papers form this techniques-based meeting that are by no ... |
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