Need samples of Dendrolimus pini

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Dmitrii Musolin, 08.06.2011 19:17

a colleague from England wrote:

Dear colleagues,
I work for the British Forestry Commission, and I use DNA sequencing and microsatellite markers to determine the degree of kinship of a population of pine cocoonworms (Dendrolimus pini L.) Scotland with populations from other regions.
To carry out this work, I need to collect additional specimens of pine cocoonworms from different habitats. This will allow them to compare their DNA sequences with samples from the Scottish population. If you have access to any Dendrolimus pini preparations from any areas of southern or eastern Europe, and especially southern Russia, the Black Sea and Caspian regions, then I would be very grateful if you could send me butterflies or, if you prefer, two insect legs. It is best to send them together in a small paper envelope - an individual envelope for each individual.
I also ask you to mark the submitted material with at least information about the area and year of capture of the insect. The best way to preserve freshly caught insects is to put them in clean test tubes with 100% ethyl alcohol. Dried samples up to 20 years old will also be useful to us.
We will be happy to share with you, if you wish, information about the DNA sequences obtained from your samples.
If you can help, please send samples to the following address:

JOAN COTTRELL, CHES,
Forest Research, Northern Research Station,
Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland EH25 9SY
(E-mail: joan.cottrell@forestry.gsi.gov.uk).
We will be very grateful for any help. If you can't help, you may have contacts with other entomologists who have access to the material we need.
Hoping for an answer and help, best regards,
Joan Cottrell

-- maybe someone can help? If it is expensive to send to England, I am ready to get it in St. Petersburg, collect everything and send it together. Does anyone have any samples and want to help?

Thanks!

Д.М.

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09.06.2011 10:21, Dmitrii Musolin

colleagues responded:

Dear colleagues,

More than a year ago, E. G. Mozolevskaya and I sent Joan a solid selection of meta-material from European and Asian Russia, with the hope of receiving sequences. Alas, this hope remained.
Together with the Institute of Genetics and Breeding of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, my laboratory is studying the molecular and genetic characteristics of two species of the genus dendrolimus-sibiricus and pini - in the Russian (so far) territory. If you suddenly have a desire to collect material on these species for otherworldly specialists, perhaps you can help us. Ready to send instructions (as well as pheromone traps).
Hi, everybody,

Yu. B.

Yuri N. Baranchikov
Head of the DepartmentLaboratory of Forest Zoology,
Candidate of Biological Sciences V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS
Akademgorodok 50, Krasnoyarsk 660036
E-mail: baranchikov-yuri@yandex.ru

--- so those who want to have the opportunity to help both foreign and domestic colleagues! that would be great!

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