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Title: Cypriniformes Tree of Life Initiative


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Cypriniformes Tree of Life Initiative
Richard L. Mayden Integrated Genomics,
Biodiversity and Conservation
Department of Biology Saint Louis
University St. Louis, Missouri 63103 USA
maydenrl_at_slu.edu
www.cypriniformes.org
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Maydens research and laboratory
  • Integrated Genomics, Biodiversity, and
    Conservation
  • Species discovery, inventory, descriptions
  • Data integration, archiving, concatenation
  • Phylogeny reconstruction
  • Species concepts and ID methods
  • DNA and vouchered specimens for nearly all North
    American freshwater species ( 1100 sp.)
  • Frozen and EtOH
  • Photovouchers
  • multiple populations and individuals

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  • Order Cypriniformes is a major group of
    Actiniopterygian fishes
  • Largest clade of freshwater fishes in the world
    expected 5000 species
  • Cypriniformes are of great importance in
    comparative biological studies, aquaculture, and
    the pet trade.
  • Studies on the zebra fish (Danio rerio) are key
    to understanding the molecular interactions of
    development and developmental evolution
  • Large carp have been maintained in complex
    polyculture systems for thousands of years
  • Important model organisms in evolution, molecular
    evolution, biogeography speciation, comparative
    ecology, etc.

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Issues
  • Despite their tremendous importance in human
    culture, their diversity, model organisms, and
    importance in ecosystem and evolutionary studies
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  • basic phylogenetic relationships and diversity
    of major clades poorly known,
  • classifications are problematic,
  • many undescribed and cryptic species,
  • several areas of planet are poorly inventoried.

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CToL Project Success
  • Tree of Life Projects are Unique
  • Globally distributed clades
  • Participants must think differently and work
    together as as community - like superorganism
  • CToL will be a model project for new way
    ofdoing large-scale systematics around World
  • Participants developed charter for
    collaborative work and sharing specimens,
    data, authorship, and ideas to achieve our
    overall goals of project

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Phylogenetic Objectives
Estimated 3,500 described species
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Levels of Collaboration
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Core Participants Global Geographic Coverage
Great Availability of Taxa
  • USA Etheopia South Africa Turkmenistan
  • Richard Mayden Abebe Getahun Paul Skelton
    Vlaidmir Salnikov
  • Robert Wood
  • Nevin Aspinwall Japan
  • Phillip Harris Misaki Miya
  • Paula Mabee Kenji Saitoh
  • Miles Coburn Mutsumi Nishida
  • Andrew Simons
  • Hank Bart Mexico
  • Nelson Rios Hector Espinosa
  • Gloria Arratia Paco Garcia de Leon
  • China Poland
  • Huanzhang Liu Jolanta Szlachciak
  • Meemann Chang
  • Shunping He Russia
  • Jun-Xing Yang Nina Bogutskaya
  • Alexander Golubtsov
  • Alexander Naseka

Associate and Adjunct Participants not listed
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Shared Collaboration -- In concert with
Individual Laboratories Working Independently!
All work together for accomplishing the
1,000 species PHYLOGENY and species
diversity by collaboratories!
AND EACH laboratory can work
separate OR together on othertargeted groups
or taxonomic issues
USA
China
Europe
Russia
Africa
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DNA Identification - A Process
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DNA Barcoding
  • GH
  • Rd
  • Rag1
  • Rag2
  • S7

NuclearGenes
Cyt-B12S16S ND4-5 ND2 CR
MitochondrialGenes
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Web Portal
  • Provides an interface for users to query and add
    data to the back-end databases
  • Provides information on resources (tissues,
    specimens etc.) available to researchers
  • Promotes community interaction through shared
    workspaces
  • File repository of various information
  • Email/discussion and archives
  • Selected content made available to
    education/outreach activities

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Online Collaborative Environment for Taxonomic
Research
CTOL Members
Database SQL 2000
Web Portal IIS, Win 2003
Outreach Service
General Public
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Data Objects
  • Sequences (ATGCCCTACAGGATC)
  • Images (Specimens/Anatomical Parts)
  • Trees
  • Nexus Files

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Interactive File Management
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Data Entry
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Data Query
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Query Results
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Query Results Detail
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Query Results Detail
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Study Dependent on SharingData, Results, Ideas,
Materials
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Study Dependent on SharingData, Results, Ideas,
Materials
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Welcome to CToL
  • The CToL welcomes collaborators to the project
  • Collaborators can contribute in many ways
  • Data generation - Taxon
    Sampling
  • Morphological characters - Molecular
    characters
  • Web resources - Species
    sampling
  • Collaborators are authors or credited for their
    contributions
  • We have limited money to distribute but seek
    proposals
  • Annual meetings at ASIH
  • Finally, hopefully we can help you obtain support
    for this international effort from different
    science agencies of countries, other agencies,
    foundations, etc.!
  • Congratulations to Japanese collaborators for
    funded Cypriniformes research following NSF Tree
    of Life
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