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
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 (European Union Refererence Laboratory insects and mites - ANSES, France)
- Raphaelle Mouttet, Deputy head of EURL (European Union Refererence Laboratory insects and mites - ANSES, France)
- Helga Reisenzein, Deputy head of EURL (European Union Refererence Laboratory insects and mites - AGES, Austria)
- Richard Gottsberger, Researcher (European Union Refererence Laboratory insects and mites - AGES, Austria)
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.