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Information for New Users

14. February 2008 - 10:12 — lukas.scharer

Dear New User,

You have recently registered for a user name on http://macrostomorpha.info and this page explains some of the basic features of the site.

First, you need to know that this page uses a content management environment, which was set up by the EDIT (European Institute of Distributed Taxonomy) Initiative. The system has six different levels of users:

Adding biblio content

20. January 2010 - 6:57 — lukas.scharer

How do I create a bibliographic citation?

Hover with the mouse over 'biblio' in the 'Content' menu on the left sidebar and click on the 'Add a biblio node' icon which appears to the right (the plus sign).

Select the 'Publication Type' and enter the required data (if you use EndNote you can use the paste function uising BibTex formated data).

Click on "Preview" to check the biblio entry and on "Submit" to save it.

Collection

29. May 2008 - 14:50 — lukas.scharer

Sampling Equipment

bucket
cups
spoon
long knife
refractometer
waterproof marker
sampling site description sheet
pencil
camera
GPS
camera
scoop

General Advice

Take Picture of every sample. It will make it a lot easier to locate the sample location in case you want to return. In order to identifiy the sample on the picture write the sample number clearly on the lid of the cup.

About the Image Galleries

27. February 2008 - 15:58 — lukas.scharer

There are currently a number of image galleries, each of which serves a different purpose:

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Image Galleries: Taxonomic drawings and images

About This Site

20. April 2007 - 9:36 — lukas.scharer

This site is intended as an online repository for taxonomic and phylogenetic information on the Macrostomorpha, a basal group of free-living flatworms, with particular emphasis for the genus Macrostomum. According to the current phylogenies the Macrostomorpha are the most basal taxon of the Rhabditophora, which encompass all free-living flatworms (except the Acoelomorpha and the Catenulida) and all the parasitic flatworms.

About the Specimens

21. November 2008 - 19:14 — lukas.scharer

Specimens represent type material, that has either been documented digitally, from which DNA samples exist and/or have been analysed, from which there are whole mount preparations, and/or from which there is material available in embedded of serially sectioned form. If some of this material has been deposited elsewhere, the specimen record includes these other catalog numbers.

The code of a specimen record consists of three parts:
- the Institution Code (e.g. MTP for Macrostomum Taxonomy and Phylogeny)
- the Collection Code (e.g. LS for Lukas Schärer, the person holding the collection)

Fixation and Preservation

31. July 2008 - 14:28 — dita.vizoso

There are many ways of fixing and preserving free-living flatworms. The protocols I give here are only suggestions, which are largely based on suggestions of Willi Salvenmoser (Univ. Innsbruck) for histological preservation, and suggestions of Tom Artois (Univ. Hasselt) for whole mount preservation.

Fixation for histology: