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

小行星9870735卡梅隆 要求提供经费，以便为6名科学家提供旅费，参加为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合会第13届国际大会组织的专题讨论会和讲习班。 该大会每四、五年举行一次，是唯一专门研究社会性昆虫的国际论坛。 这次研讨会的主题是“Corbiculate bees的部落系统发育：对不同数据集的评估”，将重点讨论这一重要昆虫群体的系统发育，其中包括具有复杂社会行为的蜜蜂和无刺蜂，以及社会熊蜂和大多数孤独的兰花蜂。 由于实践和理论上的原因，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所作的专题介绍，重点介绍了分子数据使用方面的最新进展、新的形态特征集的开发以及将不同数据集结合起来的先进方法，这些将进一步推动研究进展，促进国际合作。 在研讨会的同时，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，建立一个万维网的关系数据库的系统发育信息的corbiculate蜜蜂。 TreeBASE是第一个开发用于存储和检索已发布的系统发育树及其基础数据矩阵的数据库，其初步调查表明，它是迄今为止用于存储和访问系统发育知识的最佳且唯一的数据库。 由于前往澳大利亚的旅费很高，因此要求提供支助，以确保应邀发言者和讲习班负责人能够参加这一重要会议。

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.