Hi Listers,
one thing Magnus forgot to mention - as quite some listers expressed
interest in the meeting I had raised the question of doing translations
during the meeting. After some discussion the members agreed to start
a trial period of one year with doing some translation in our quarterly
paper, our homepages and probably an english commented speech on next
year�s meeting. So we PLAN (but can�t guarantee) to have english written
stuff beginning with Issue No.1/2002 (in spring �02) ... I will make a
note to the list if things have worked out.
Beverly wrote:
> THat's interesting. Do you know if this work will be published?
It will - but I don�t know yet when and where ... .
> I've wondered whether this sort of molecular phylogeny stuff is
> effective for the island Phelsuma species, because they are probably
> all extreme example of 'founder effect' - i.e. each species may descend
> from a single gravid female or pair of eggs, and there's no guarantee
> that these 'founders' were particularly representative of their species.
> In addition, with such tiny founder populations, inbreeding and genetic
> drift would be extreme.
They will cover especially the history of distribution of all the
Phelsuma species and comment on the island-species genetical heritage.
As some genes are very slow in mutation they DO help to uncover this.
Yuri wrote:
> Did the study of relationships of Phelsuma cover all species and
> subspecies? If so, was there anything published describing the various
> realtionships? And were there any suggestions to revise the present
> organization of species/sub species?
No, so far we only got a very small glimpse of their work, and they
will have to do more studies to be able to be 100% sure about the results.
What Magnus wrote is already all there is to tell currently.
> Any new discoveries or interesting bits of information as to Phelsuma
> husbandry?
Well, that surely depends on the knowlegde you already have on that topic
- the speeches dealt with P. laticauda ssp., P. inexpectata and the
P. v-nigra ssp., and one speech was about dealing with treatment of
coccidia in WC animals ... . A short summary of all speeches will be in
the next issue of our paper, but I fear it will be all in german ... .
Julie wrote:
> Well, my computer just shorted out because I drooled on the keyboard
> reading your post about my beloved Phelsuma! ;-)
... perhaps then we should not make those translations, as we cannot
take responsibilty for any resulting casualties *g* ;-)
Tony wrote:
> The Intressengruppe Phelsuma meeting sounds great.
> Was there any talk of Phelsuma "milking" honeydew-producing
> planthoppers?
> I just finished reading F�lling, Knogge, and B�hme's paper in the
> latest Journal of Natural History and I am completely amazed!
No, in fact I doubt that more than few germans have yet heard about
this work - I for my part definitely have not, and I DO read a lot of
stuff ... could you sum up for us what that is all about in short words?
OK, so much for now -
Regards, Hartmut
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