News FreshGEN: the Freshwater Gastropods of the European Neogene – a new thematic database Added on: 2014-11-21 13:55:20 by Vandepitte, Leen The FreshGEN database contains species information on Neogene freshwater Gastropoda and has kindly offered to share its information with both MolluscaBase and WoRMS. Through this, MolluscaBase is taking an excellent start regarding the fossil component of the database, as no less than 4.360 new taxa were added. ... [Read more] NeMys – the World Database of Free-Living Marine Nematodes – has joined forces with WoRMS Added on: 2014-11-17 11:26:40 by Vandepitte, Leen NeMys has recently been integrated into the World Register of Marine Species. In addition to all the WoRMS-functionalities, it also holds a number of online identification keys. ... [Read more] WoRMS goes viral! Added on: 2014-11-04 09:13:17 by Vandepitte, Leen The goal of WoRMS is to deal with all marine organisms and – up till now – viruses have been completely overlooked. In collaboration with members of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), WoRMS has leaped into the world of these fascinating tiny creatures and has made available the names of 129 marine virus species, including the link with their host organisms. ... [Read more] LifeWatch at the EMBS49 Added on: 2014-09-15 10:34:18 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie Different aspects of the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure were presented at the 49th European Marine Biology Symposium at St. Petersburg, Russia. ... [Read more] Major update of the Ostracoda in WoRMS Added on: 2014-08-26 13:48:49 by Vandepitte, Leen Recently, over 38.000 new Ostracoda species names have been added to WoRMS, and more than 7.000 existing species names have been updated and verified. ... [Read more] GBIF has awarded its 2014 Ebbe Nielsen Prize to Tony Rees Added on: 2014-07-15 09:55:53 by Vandepitte, Leen GBIF has awarded its prestigious Ebbe Nielsen Prize for 2014 to Tony Rees, whose groundbreaking informatics tools have significantly advanced the delivery of data about life on Earth. ... [Read more] [Add] [Older news... ]

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