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Publications
resulting from this study: 
Powers TO, Neher D, Mullin P, Esquivel A, Giblin-Davis RM, Stock SP, et al. 2009. Tropical nematode diversity: vertical stratification of nematode communities in a Costa Rican humid lowland rainforest. Molecular Ecology 18: 985-996.

Kanzaki N, Giblin-Davis RM, Zeng Y, Ye W, Center BJ. 2009. Acrostichus rhynchophori n. sp. (Rhabditida: Diplogastridae): a phoretic associate of Rhynchophorus cruentatus Fabricius and R. palmarum L. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Americas. Nematology In Press.

Kanzaki N, Giblin-Davis RM, Zeng Y, Ye W, Center BJ. 2008. Diplogastrellus metamasius n. sp. (Rhabditida: Diplogastridae) isolated from Metamasius hemipterus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae) in southern Florida and Costa Rica. Nematology 10:853-868.

Esquivel, A., P. Guerrero., R. Pena-Santiago and T. Powers. 2007. Free-living dorylaimid nematodes from nature reserves in Costa Rica. The genus Pachydorylaimus Siddiqi, 1983. Nematropica 37:317-333

Giblin-Davis RM, Ye W, Kanzaki N, Williams DS, Morris K, Thomas WK. 2006. Stomatal ultrastructure, molecular phylogeny, and description of Parasitodiplogaster laevigata n. sp. (Nematoda: Diplogastridae), a parasite of fig wasps. Journal of Nematology 38:137-149.

Ye W, Giblin-Davis RM, Braasch H, Morris K, Thomas WK. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships among Bursaphelenchus species (Nematoda: Parasitaphelenchidae) inferred from nuclear ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequence data.
Researchers from the US:

Deborah Neher - University of Vermont
Robin Giblin-Davis - University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale
Tom Powers - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
S. Patricia Stock - University of Arizona
Natsumi Kanzaki - University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale
Barb Center - University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale
Peter Mullin - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Weimin Ye - University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale
Brian Darby - University of Vermont
Rudi Scheffrahn - University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale
Jennifer Bauman - University of Arizona
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Researchers from Costa Rica:
Lorena Uribe Lorío - Universidad de Costa Rica
Alejandro Esquivel - Universidad Nacional
Marielos Mora - Universidad de Costa Rica

 

Three undergraduate students, two graduate students, four post-docs  and 2 research technicians have received training and professional development on this project. Students and their affiliations:

Marialos Mora (U.C.R.), Simon Creer (Bangor University, Wales), Holly Bik (Natural History Museum, London), Way Sung (University of New Hampshire), and W. Kelley Thomas (University of New Hampshire)

Activities have included skills in voucher specimens, species descriptions, nematode metagenomics/metagenetics, bioinformatics pipeline and La Selva transect analysis using 454 GS FLX