{"title":"Lost and found in Ireland; how a data label resulted in a postal delivery to Metriocnemus (Inermipupa) carmencitabertarum (Orthocladiinae)","authors":"D. Murray","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1897","url":null,"abstract":"A plastic vial containing reference chironomid adults and pupal exuviae and a data label in alcohol was sent by post in a package from the Republic of Ireland to a colleague in Northern Ireland (UK). The package was delivered but the vial with specimens was missing. Several months later the vial was found in the Northern Ireland Mail Centre and returned to the original sender using the species name and other information taken from the label in the vial as an address. The recovery of the lost specimens illustrates an additional benefit of accurate data labelling.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"22 1","pages":"57-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of Chironomus (Chironomus) melanescens Keyl, 1962 in North America","authors":"John Martin","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1898","url":null,"abstract":"Chironomus melanescens was originally described by Keyl (1962) on the basis of the morphology of polytene chromosome arms A, E, and F in populations from Germany. Keyl ascribed the name to Strenzke, but although Strenzke collected and reared the specimens, he died before he was able to describe them. Keyl also had used the name in a 1961 paper but there was no information that could be considered a species description (i.e. it was a nomen nudum). The type localities in Keyl (1962) are given as Duemer Lake and a pool south of Clauthal-Zellerfeld. Wülker et al. (1981) quoted a personal communication from Keyl in which he nominated the type specimen as slide S1149 B2 (misread as S1149 82), and giving the locality as Harz, Acker, which is a loose reference to Clauthal-Zellerfield. The latter paper gave a more full description of the chromosomes as well as some information about the adult male and the larva of material from Germany and Switzerland, although specifically aimed at distinguishing C. melanescens from the closely related C. holomelas Keyl, 1962 and C. saxatilis Wülker et al., 1981. Kiknadze et al. (1991) illustrated the larva and redescribed the cytology from Russian populations.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"859 1","pages":"40-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70780012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preliminary data on the chironomid fauna of the Middle Volga region within the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia) based on hydrobiological monitoring studies","authors":"T. Kondrateva, L. Nazarova","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1876","url":null,"abstract":"Here we provide a new list of chironomid taxa from the middle section of the River Volga (within the Republic of Tatarstan) and its tributaries (Mesha, Kazanka, Svijaga, Steppe Zai, Vjatka, Big Cheremshan, Tojma, Avlashka, Jurashka, and small inundated reservoir of Kazan). Chironomids were investigated from hydrobiological collections of zoobenthos completed by the Meteorological service of Russia (FPBI “Management of hydrometeorology and environmental monitoring of the Republic of Tatarstan”).","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"36-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70780324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fabio Laurindo da Silva, S. Wiedenbrug, Brian D. Farrell
{"title":"A preliminary survey of the non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) of the Dominican Republic","authors":"Fabio Laurindo da Silva, S. Wiedenbrug, Brian D. Farrell","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1925","url":null,"abstract":"Chironomidae (Diptera) are among the most diverse and widespread aquatic insects, with roughly 5,500 described species. However, prior to the present work, no species of Chironomidae had been documented from the island of Hispaniola. Collections of non-biting midges, with emphasis on the lotic fauna, were made in the Dominican Republic during July of 2015. In total, 578 specimens belonging to 27 genera and at least 44 species within the subfamilies Chironominae (20 taxa), Orthocladiinae (16 taxa) and Tanypodinae (8 taxa) were found. The subfamilies Chironominae and Orthocladiinae predominated. Polypedilum was the most widespread and diverse genus of Chironominae. Metriocnemus were collected in bromeliad tanks. The chironomid fauna in Dominican Republic includes multiple genera with worldwide distributions, including Holarctic and Neotropical components.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"12-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70780117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chironomids: A Personal Journey","authors":"C. Rosa","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1927","url":null,"abstract":"The year was 1977. I was an undergraduate student at the newly created Biology Department at the Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. We were a group of about 30 students, mostly transfers from other careers (I had been in Engineering for 3 years when I transferred to Biology), who had waited patiently for the bureaucratic process of creating a new department in our university. A team of new faculty members, some very well known scientists, some barely older than we were, worked with the students to create the new curriculum, outfit the laboratories, and develop research projects where the students could participate as research assistants. It was a wonderful time filled with creativity, endless energy, hard work, and fantastic scholarship and idealism. Some of us students drifted from lab to lab, learning techniques, going on field trips with our professors, and learning the ropes of this new career we had chosen: to be a professional biologist.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"30-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70780252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online early - only online","authors":"T. Ekrem, Alyssa M. Anderson, P. Langton","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"3-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70780311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A note on sampling chironomids for RNA-based studies of natural populations that retains critical morphological vouchers","authors":"M. Krosch, L. M. Bryant","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I28.1877","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid uptake of transcriptomic approaches in freshwater ecology has seen a wealth of data produced concerning the ways in which organisms interact with their environment on a molecular level. Typically, such studies focus either at the community level and so don’t require species identifications, or on laboratory strains of known species identity or natural populations of large, easily identifiable taxa. For chironomids, impediments still exist for applying these technologies to natural populations because they are small-bodied and often require time-consuming secondary sorting of stream material and morphological voucher preparation to confirm species diagnosis. These procedures limit the ability to maintain RNA quantity and quality in such organisms because RNA degrades rapidly and gene expression can be altered rapidly in organisms; thereby limiting the inclusion of such taxa in transcriptomic studies. Here, we demonstrate that these limitations can be overcome and outline an optimised protocol for collecting, sorting and preserving chironomid larvae that enables retention of both morphological vouchers and RNA for subsequent transcriptomics purposes. By ensuring that sorting and voucher preparation are completed within <4 hours after collection and that samples are kept cold at all times, we successfully retained both RNA and morphological vouchers from all specimens. Although not prescriptive in specific methodology, we anticipate that this paper will assist in promoting transcriptomic investigations of the sublethal impact on chironomid gene expression of changes to aquatic environments.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"4-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70780204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First record of gynandromorphy in fossil Chironomidae (Diptera) from Late Eocene Rovno amber","authors":"V. Baranov, E. Perkovsky","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I27.1701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I27.1701","url":null,"abstract":"Gynandromorphy as an abnormal mixture of sex-specific traits of males and females in an individual is wide spread among the Chironomidae (Martin and Lee 2000). Gynandromorphy could be caused by mutation in the mitosis regulating genes, which creates an abnormal puzzle of “genetically masculine” and “feminine” body parts, or by other factors like Mermithidae (Nematoda) parasites (Martin 1994). Gynandromorphs can be categorized based on morphology and relationships between “male” and “ female” parts of the body. Basically they could be divided in 3 groups: a) anteroposterior gynandromorphs – with anterior and posterior parts of the body possessing traits of different sexes; b) lateral – with body possessing different sexes traits on the left and right sides; c) mosaic – with sexual traits creating a sophisticated puzzle where wings and limbs can be attributed to the phenotypes of different sexes (Martin 1994, Rempel 1940). Studies of gynandromorphs are important for understanding Chironomidae sex determination mechanisms and evolution of the group.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 20th International Symposium on Chironomidae","authors":"V. Lencioni","doi":"10.5324/CJCR.V0I27.1703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/CJCR.V0I27.1703","url":null,"abstract":"Prince Bishops turned the Buonconsiglio castle into one of the best known castles in the whole of Europe and Trento (historically known in English as Trent) is the capital of the Trentino Province, a mountain region located in the heart of the Alps. The Province covers an area of more than 6,000 km2, with a total population of about 0.5 million. Trento lies in the Adige valley just south of the Dolomite Mountains, where the Fersina River and Avisio rivers join the Adige River, the second longest river in Italy. The town centre is more or less a pedestrian area, and walking around the historic centre you can see a number of outdoor frescos on historic buildings. MUSEMuseo delle Scienze (previously Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali) is one of the main cultural centers of the city and was built along the banks of the Adige. It manages, in addition to the main museum located close to the city centre, a network of six museums and local offices at the provincial level and one in Tanzania. MUSE, that traces back its origin in the mid XIX century, is the first museum in Italy that harmoniously blends nature, science and technology, devoted to research, visitor interpretation and education. Since 2013 the museum has been located in a new building whose outline recalls the profile of the surrounding mountains, with a finely balanced contrast between Town centre, the Cathedral. Photo: Matteo Ianeselli / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0& GFDL.","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"19th International Symposium on Chironomidae, České Budĕjovice, Czech Republic, 17-22 August 2014","authors":"P. Langton","doi":"10.5324/cjcr.v0i27.1725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/cjcr.v0i27.1725","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30852,"journal":{"name":"CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70779868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}