Funding for 13th International IUSSI Congress Symposium and Workshop entited 'Tribal Phylogeny of the Corbiculate Bees,' Adelaide, Australia, December 29, 1998 to January 4, 1999

9870735请卡梅伦基金为参加将于1998年12月29日至1999年1月4日在澳大利亚阿德莱德举行的国际社会昆虫研究联盟第13届国际大会举办的专题讨论会和讲习班的六名科学家提供旅费支助。这个大会每四到五年举行一次，是唯一一个专门研究群居昆虫的国际论坛。计划中的研讨会题为“圆孔蜂的部落系统发育：不同数据集的评估”，将集中讨论这一重要昆虫群体的系统发育，其中包括蜜蜂和具有复杂社会行为的无刺蜜蜂，以及群居的大黄蜂和大多数独居的兰花蜂。由于实际和理论上的原因，这一群体正在接受深入的系统发育和行为研究。来自世界各地的科学家的演讲，介绍了分子数据使用的最新进展，新形态字符集的发展以及结合不同数据集的先进方法，将进一步促进研究进展并促进国际合作。在专题讨论会的同时，还将举办一个讲习班，专门讨论未来的关键研究领域，并协调努力建立一个关于小窝蜂的系统发育信息的WWW关系数据库。TreeBASE是第一个用于存储和检索已发表的系统发育树及其基础数据矩阵的数据库，对它的初步调查表明，它是迄今为止最好的、也是唯一可用的存储和访问系统发育知识的数据库。由于前往澳大利亚的旅行费用巨大，请提供支持，以确保受邀的演讲者和研讨会负责人能够参加这次重要的会议。

9870735 Cameron Funds are requested to provide travel support for six scientists to participate in a symposium and workshop organized for the 13th International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) to be held in Adelaide, Australia, 29 December 1998 - 4 January 1999. This Congress, held once every four or five years, is the only international forum devoted exclusively to research on social insects. The planned symposium, entitled "Tribal Phylogeny of the Corbiculate bees: An Evaluation of Diverse Data Sets", will focus on the phylogeny of this important group of insects, which includes the honey bees and stingless bees with their elaborate social behavior, and the social bumble bees and mostly solitary orchid bees. For both practical and theoretical reasons this group is receiving intensive phylogenetic and behavioral study. Presentations by scientists from different parts of the world, featuring recent advances in the use of molecular data, the development of new morphological character sets and advanced approaches to combining diverse data sets will enhance further research progress and foster international collaboration. In conjunction with the symposium, a workshop will be devoted to discussion of future critical research areas, and to the coordination of an effort to establish a WWW relational database of phylogenetic information on the corbiculate bees. Preliminary investigation of TreeBASE, the first database developed to store and retrieve published phylogenetic trees and their underlying data matrices, indicates that it is the best, and only, database available to date for storing and accessing phylogenetic knowledge. Because of the great expense associated with travel to Australia, support is requested to ensure that the invited speakers and workshop leaders are able to participate in this important meeting.