Manuscript submitted - again..

Finally, the manuscript is re-submitted to the Journal of Natural History. It took several hours but now I'm satisfied! Hopefully we don't need to wait for 4 month this time for a reply??
So... back to making nice trees (phylogenetical) for my BIG revision!!!

Euphorinae in Laramie, University of Wyoming

I am visiting Prof. Scott Shaw and looking at his great collection of Braconidae, especially Euphorinae.

Wolbachia...

The wolbachia thing...
Some time ago I tried ITS on my so called Wolbachia infected specimens, at least it looked like they were infected since the morphology didn't agree with COI sequences. Anyway ITS also shows that they are the same species. So what's wrong? Either they are that variable in morphology or there have been some contamination with the DNA. I don't really believe in the first alternative so it must be the second, though I doubt that too! But considering my human factor..... When there is time I'll extract the specimens again, if there is anything left.

GenBank, check!

GenBank submission is now done! Not so hard after all but time consuming this first time.
The drawn illustrations are done and the pictures for the key is on the go! I have to do that at home because it is easiest done in Adobe InDesign and we don't have that at work! So while at work I have some time over for wasp sorting. Also I have to pick out a couple of specimens for my colleagues so that they can try the key out - maybe I'll do that now?!

New week

The weekend was too nice to spend working indors. But now the formatting is done. Just recieved 4 holotypes from Japan and today I'm taking their pictures. Need to return them fast so that I'll get the last delivery before MS is submitted. Then I'll go on taking pic's for the key and then I'll submit sequences to Genbank.... I don't look forward to that!

Finishing the revision

What's up!?

I'm just formatting my manuscript after Zootaxas forms - tables and figures in separate files, references were time consuming. Next step is submitting sequences to GenBank... that will be even harder. And then the illustrations!! First of all I have to get together some photos for the key - so that some persons can try it out and evaluate it. And that's quite a few pic's! 54 steps in the key and every step at least has 1 picture. Then I have to submit more pictures to Morphbank. That's at least 5 pictures for every species. But then I think I'm done!? All MrBayes analyses are done now but I still have to run a parsimony analysis on the morphological matrix. Just that I don't really remember how to use the program TNT??
But the weekend is here, it's Friday today... We'll see if I can finish the MS formatting during Sunday!

Hymenoptera conference!

Getting things ready for the Hymenoptera conference in Hungary!
Packing research stuff, articles and MS, traps and excursion gear.

Have to remember to go through my presentation also!!!!! I just don't know what version I sent the organizers....

Flight is sceduled on sunday 20th with return date to sweden the 29th