Acknowledgements
The following institutes contributed to the EPPO-Q-bank Arthropods database :
INRAE: National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France: CBGP -Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, Montpellier & URZF -Unité de Recherche de Zoologie forestière, Orléans.
- Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority: NRC - National Reference Center, Wageningen
- ANSES: Agence nationale de sécurité de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail, France: Laboratoire de la santé des végétaux:, Montpellier.
- LU: Lincoln University Bio-Protection Research Centre, New Zealand.
- ACW: Agroscope Changins-Waedenswil Research Station, Switzerland.
- FERA: Food and Environment Research Agency, United Kingdom.
- CIP: International Potato Center, Peru.
- Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium.
- European Union Refererence Laboratory insects and mites, France/Austria
- PANZ, New Zealand
- SASA, Scotland
- AGES, Austria
- DAFM, Ireland
EPPO-Q-bank Arthropods is grateful for the time, effort and data the following persons contributed and which represent the bulk of the data in the database:
- Artige Emmanuelle, Database Management (INRA-CBGP Montferrier-sur-Lez - France)
- Boer Edu, Specimen Data Management (NRC, Netherlands)
- Cocquempot Christian, Specimen Management & Sampling (INRA-CBGP Montferrier-sur-Lez- France)
- Cruaud Astrid, Database Management & Sampling (INRA-CBGP Montferrier-sur-Lez - France)
- Genson Gwenaëlle, Molecular work (INRA-CBGP Montferrier-sur-Lez - France)
- Meusnier Isabelle, Molecular work (INRA-CBGP Montferrier-sur-Lez - France)
- Pierre Eric, Specimen and Botanic data Management (INRA-CBGP Montferrier-sur-Lez - France)
- Piry Sylvain, Database Management (INRA-CBGP Montferrier-sur-Lez - France)
- Streito Jean-Claude, Specimen data Management & Sampling (INRA-CBGP Montferrier-sur-Lez - France)
- Marc de Meyer, Head of the department of African Biology (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium)
- Massimiliano Virgilio, Researcher (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium)
- Kenny Meganck, Molecular biologist (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium)
- Andrea Taddei, Project leader (EURL insects and mites - ANSES, France)
- Raphaelle Mouttet, Deputy head of EURL (EURL insects and mites - ANSES, France)
- Helga Reisenzein, Deputy head of EURL (EURL insects and mites - AGES, Austria)
- Richard Gottsberger, Researcher (EURL insects and mites - AGES, Austria)
- Tibor Bukovinszki, former EPPO-Q-bank curator (NIVIP, the Netherlands)
- Dongmei Li and Disna Gunawardana (PANZ, NZ)
- Rebecca Cairn (SASA, Scotland)
- Amanda Brechon (DAFM, Ireland)
The following people/institutes contributed specimens and/or DNA samples to the EPPO-Q-bank Arthropods database :
Special thanks to Valérie Balmès (LSV, France), Normann Barr (USDA Edinburg, Texas), Béatrice Courtial (INRA-URZF Orléans, France), Tselila Ben David (Bet Dagan, Israel), Stéphane Dupas, (IRD Quito, Ecuador), Xavier Chiriboga Morales (INIAP, Ecuador), Jean Etienne (INRA, Guadeloupe), Juerg E. Frey (FDEA, Switzerland), Jean-François Germain (LSV, France), David Hall (USDA Fort Pierce, Florida), Paul Hanson (University San José, Costa Rica), Hossein Lotfalizadeh (Iran), Diana Pérez-Staples (Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico), Therese Poland (USDA East Lansing, Michigan), Mari Pizza (Bari, Italy), Jean-François Silvain (IRD, Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Alain Roques (INRA-URZF Orléans, France), Jun Tabata (NIAES Tsukuba, Japan), Robert S. Vernon (AAFC Agassiz, Canada), Willie Cabrera Walsh (USDA Buenos Aires, Argentina) for contributing samples.
Sequences were obtained from the following research projects and EPPO-Q-bank Arthropods is grateful to the research funders and participants of those projects.
- Euphresco ARTHCOLLECT
- Euphresco EPIDISARTH
- EU Horizon2020 project ‘FF-IPM’ (grant agreement 818184)
- EU FP7 project 'QBOL' (grant agreement 226482)