22 results on '"Vignes Lebbe R"'
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2. Moving from Biodiversity Information Systems to Biodiversity Information Services
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Conruyt, N., Sebastien, D., Vignes-Lebbe, R., Cosadia, S., Touraivane, T., Pôle Pluridisciplinaire de la Matière et de l'Environnement (PPME), Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (UNC), Institut de REcherche en Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées (IREMIA), Université de La Réunion (UR), Alarcon, Nicolas, and BUNC, Pole ID
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[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,[MATH] Mathematics [math] ,[INFO] Computer Science [cs] ,[MATH]Mathematics [math] ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
International audience; no abstract
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- 2010
3. Xper²: introducing e-Taxonomy
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Ung, V., Dubus, G., Zaragüeta-Bagils, R., Vignes-Lebbe, R., Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (LAOG), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
International audience
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- 2010
4. A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)
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de Jong, Y., Nimis, P.L., Vignes Lebbe, R., info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/223806 (IBED, FNWI), and Experimental Plant Systematics (IBED, FNWI)
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This paper introduces the rationale and aims of the Europewide biodiversity informatics PESI [1] project. PESI defines and coordinates strategies to enhance the quality and reliability of European biodiversity information by integrating the infrastructural components of four major community networks on taxonomic indexing, namely those of marine life, terrestrial plants, fungi and animals, into a joint work programme. This will include functional knowledge networks of both taxonomic experts and regional focal points, which will collaborate on the establishment of standardised and authoritative taxonomic (meta-) data. In addition PESI will coordinate the integration and synchronisation of the European taxonomic information systems into a joint e-infrastructure and the creation of a common userinterface disseminating the pan-European checklists and associated userservices results.
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- 2010
5. LisBETH, Lis program for Biogeography and Evolution using THree-item analysis
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Ducasse, J., Cao, N., Zaragüeta I. Bagils, R., Ung, V., Vignes-Lebbe, R., Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
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[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology - Published
- 2010
6. Xper²
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Vignes-Lebbe, R., Dubus, G., Zaragüeta I. Bagils, R., Ung, V., Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
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[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology - Published
- 2009
7. Hierarchical representation of hypotheses of homology
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Cao, N., Zaraguëta Bagils, R., Vignes-Lebbe, R., Paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
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[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology - Published
- 2007
8. Molecular identification of Italian mouse-eared bats (genus Myotis)
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Galimberti, A., Martinoli, Adriano, Russo, D., Mucedda, M., Casiraghi, M., Galimberti, A, Martinoli, A, Russo, D, Mucedda, M, Casiraghi, M, Nimis, PL, and Vignes Lebbe, R
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cryptic species ,DNA barcoding ,Vespertilionidae ,integrated taxonomy ,Phylogeny ,European bats ,BIO/05 - ZOOLOGIA - Abstract
Despite the fact that the genus Myotis (Mouse-Eared bats) is one of the most investigated microchiropteran groups, recent molecular studies highlighted the presence of several cryptic species with substantial implications for ecological and conservation issues. Our dataset includes 55 coxI sequences from 11 morphologically-identified Italian Mouse-Eared bats species. We applied an integrated approach comparing data from a traditional morphological identification and molecular variability in a fragment of the mitochondrial coxI gene (DNA barcoding). Our results clearly show a strong coherence between the two identification approaches for almost all of the examined species, and revealed interesting patterns of intraspecific variability within the species M. nattereri. Finally, we successfully tested the efficacy of our identification method on undetermined individuals sampled in the field.
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- 2010
9. FloraNER: A new dataset for species and morphological terms named entity recognition in French botanical text.
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Nainia A, Vignes-Lebbe R, Chenin E, Sahraoui M, Mousannif H, and Zahir J
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FloraNER is a distantly supervised named entity recognition dataset (NER). The dataset is built from botanical French literature extracted from the OCR-preprocessed flora of New Caledonia, provided by the National Museum of Natural History in France (MNHN), and distantly annotated with a botanical French corpus created by merging botanical lexicons available online. FloraNER comprises separate sub-datasets for the recognition of plant species names, as well as coarse-grained and fine-grained botanical morphological terms. The resulting datasets are in CSV format, displaying textual data, identified named entities, and their annotations, covering one named entity type "Species" (Espèce in French) for species name identification, two named entity types "Organ" and "Descriptor" for coarse-grained morphological term identification, and eight named entity types for fine-grained morphological term identification: Organ, Descriptor, Form, Color, Development, Structure, Surface, Position, Disposition, and Measure. This dataset can be utilized to train and evaluate named entity recognition models for extracting information from botanical French literature., (© 2024 The Authors.)
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- 2024
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10. Bioinspire-Explore: Taxonomy-Driven Exploration of Biodiversity Data for Bioinspired Innovation.
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Saint-Sardos A, Aish A, Tchakarov N, Bourgoin T, Petit LM, Sun JS, and Vignes-Lebbe R
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Successful bioinspired design depends on practitioners' access to biological data in a relevant form. Although multiple open-access biodiversity databases exist, their presentation is often adapted to life scientists, rather than bioinspired designers. In this paper, we present a new tool, "Bioinspire-Explore", for navigating biodiversity data in order to uncover biological systems of interest for a range of sectors. Bioinspire-Explore allows users to search for inspiring biological models via taxa (species, genera, etc.) as an entry point. It provides information on a taxon's position in the "tree of life", its distribution and climatic niche, as well as its appearance. Bioinspire-Explore also shows users connections in the bioinspiration literature between their taxon of interest and associated biological processes, habitats, and physical measurements by way of their semantic proximity. We believe Bioinspire-Explore has the potential to become an indispensable resource for both biologists and bioinspired designers in different fields.
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- 2024
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11. ZooNom: an online thesaurus for alleviating ambiguity in the terminology of zoological nomenclature.
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Saliba EM, Vignes-Lebbe R, Dubois A, and Ohler A
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- Animals, Plant Roots, Names, Vocabulary, Controlled
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Zoological nomenclature is the discipline of taxonomy responsible for regulating the scientific names of animal species. It has its roots in Carolus Linnaeus work and has been governed by an international Code since the turn of the 20th century. Its vocabulary, on the other hand, is not always clear. Various authors have established new terminology in order to reduce ambiguity. To make these new terms, but also the classical terms used by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, accessible, an electronic thesaurus (link: https://www.loterre.fr/skosmos/FM8/en/) was created, allowing to compare existing terminologies. This thesaurus is also a tool for reflection and discussion, targeting taxonomists and experts in nomenclature.
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- 2021
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12. The Increasing Disconnection of Primary Biodiversity Data from Specimens: How Does It Happen and How to Handle It?
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Troudet J, Vignes-Lebbe R, Grandcolas P, and Legendre F
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- Data Analysis standards, Biodiversity, Classification methods
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Primary biodiversity data represent the fundamental elements of any study in systematics and evolution. They are, however, no longer gathered as they used to be and the mass-production of observation-based (OB) occurrences is overthrowing the collection of specimen-based (SB) occurrences. Although this change in practice is a major upheaval with significant consequences in the study of biodiversity, it remains understudied and has not attracted yet the attention it deserves. Analyzing 536 million occurrences from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) mediated data, we show that this spectacular change affects the 24 eukaryote taxonomic classes we targeted: from 1970 to 2016 the proportion of occurrences marked as traceable to tangible material (i.e., SB occurrences) fell from 68% to 18%; moreover, most of those specimen based-occurrences cannot be readily traced back to a specimen because the necessary information is missing. Ethical, practical or legal reasons responsible for this shift are known, and this situation appears unlikely to be reversed. Still, we urge scholars to acknowledge this dramatic change, embrace it and actively deal with it. Specifically, we emphasize why SB occurrences must be gathered, as a warrant to allow both repeating evolutionary studies and conducting rich and diverse investigations. When impossible to secure, voucher specimens must be replaced with OB occurrences combined with ancillary data (e.g., pictures, recordings, samples, DNA sequences). Ancillary data are instrumental for the usefulness of biodiversity occurrences and we show that, despite improving technologies to collate them, they remain rarely shared. The consequences of such a change are not yet clear but we advocate collecting material evidence or ancillary data to ensure that primary biodiversity data collected lately do not partly become obsolete when doubtful.
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- 2018
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13. A multi-access identification key based on colour patterns in ladybirds (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae).
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Jouveau S, Delaunay M, Vignes-Lebbe R, and Nattier R
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An identification key based on French ladybird colouration is proposed for the tribes Chilocorini, Coccinellini, and Epilachnini. These tribes were chosen based on their relatively limited species diversity, as well as their large size and high colour diversity, making them easy to observe and collect. The identification key runs on Xper
3 software, which allows the building of structured knowledge bases and online free-access keys. The online interactive Xper key is available at http://french-ladybird.identificationkey.fr.- Published
- 2018
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14. Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences.
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Troudet J, Grandcolas P, Blin A, Vignes-Lebbe R, and Legendre F
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- Agaricales classification, Animals, Bias, Biodiversity, Phylogeny, Plants classification, Classification methods, Conservation of Natural Resources methods
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Studying and protecting each and every living species on Earth is a major challenge of the 21
st century. Yet, most species remain unknown or unstudied, while others attract most of the public, scientific and government attention. Although known to be detrimental, this taxonomic bias continues to be pervasive in the scientific literature, but is still poorly studied and understood. Here, we used 626 million occurrences from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the biggest biodiversity data portal, to characterize the taxonomic bias in biodiversity data. We also investigated how societal preferences and taxonomic research relate to biodiversity data gathering. For each species belonging to 24 taxonomic classes, we used the number of publications from Web of Science and the number of web pages from Bing searches to approximate research activity and societal preferences. Our results show that societal preferences, rather than research activity, strongly correlate with taxonomic bias, which lead us to assert that scientists should advertise less charismatic species and develop societal initiatives (e.g. citizen science) that specifically target neglected organisms. Ensuring that biodiversity is representatively sampled while this is still possible is an urgent prerequisite for achieving efficient conservation plans and a global understanding of our surrounding environment.- Published
- 2017
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15. The Porifera Ontology (PORO): enhancing sponge systematics with an anatomy ontology.
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Thacker RW, Díaz MC, Kerner A, Vignes-Lebbe R, Segerdell E, Haendel MA, and Mungall CJ
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Background: Porifera (sponges) are ancient basal metazoans that lack organs. They provide insight into key evolutionary transitions, such as the emergence of multicellularity and the nervous system. In addition, their ability to synthesize unusual compounds offers potential biotechnical applications. However, much of the knowledge of these organisms has not previously been codified in a machine-readable way using modern web standards., Results: The Porifera Ontology is intended as a standardized coding system for sponge anatomical features currently used in systematics. The ontology is available from http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/poro.owl, or from the project homepage http://porifera-ontology.googlecode.com/. The version referred to in this manuscript is permanently available from http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/poro/releases/2014-03-06/., Conclusions: By standardizing character representations, we hope to facilitate more rapid description and identification of sponge taxa, to allow integration with other evolutionary database systems, and to perform character mapping across the major clades of sponges to better understand the evolution of morphological features. Future applications of the ontology will focus on creating (1) ontology-based species descriptions; (2) taxonomic keys that use the nested terms of the ontology to more quickly facilitate species identifications; and (3) methods to map anatomical characters onto molecular phylogenies of sponges. In addition to modern taxa, the ontology is being extended to include features of fossil taxa.
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- 2014
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16. An interactive key to the Chrysochromulina species (Haptophyta) described in the literature.
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Chrétiennot-Dinet MJ, Desreumaux N, and Vignes-Lebbe R
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We present a general overview of features and technical specifications of an original interactive key web application for the identification of Chrysochromulina species. The list of species, originally described as belonging in the genus Chrysochromulina, is given and recent taxonomic changes in species and genera of the order Prymnesiales are provided. We briefly discuss the interest of such a key for the identification of phytoplanktonic species.
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- 2014
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17. A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities.
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Hardisty A, Roberts D, Addink W, Aelterman B, Agosti D, Amaral-Zettler L, Ariño AH, Arvanitidis C, Backeljau T, Bailly N, Belbin L, Berendsohn W, Bertrand N, Caithness N, Campbell D, Cochrane G, Conruyt N, Culham A, Damgaard C, Davies N, Fady B, Faulwetter S, Feest A, Field D, Garnier E, Geser G, Gilbert J, Grosche, Grosser D, Hardisty A, Herbinet B, Hobern D, Jones A, de Jong Y, King D, Knapp S, Koivula H, Los W, Meyer C, Morris RA, Morrison N, Morse D, Obst M, Pafilis E, Page LM, Page R, Pape T, Parr C, Paton A, Patterson D, Paymal E, Penev L, Pollet M, Pyle R, von Raab-Straube E, Robert V, Roberts D, Robertson T, Rovellotti O, Saarenmaa H, Schalk P, Schaminee J, Schofield P, Sier A, Sierra S, Smith V, van Spronsen E, Thornton-Wood S, van Tienderen P, van Tol J, Tuama ÉÓ, Uetz P, Vaas L, Vignes Lebbe R, Vision T, Vu D, De Wever A, White R, Willis K, and Young F
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- Animals, Ecosystem, Humans, Information Dissemination, Biodiversity, Computational Biology instrumentation, Computational Biology methods
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Biodiversity informatics plays a central enabling role in the research community's efforts to address scientific conservation and sustainability issues. Great strides have been made in the past decade establishing a framework for sharing data, where taxonomy and systematics has been perceived as the most prominent discipline involved. To some extent this is inevitable, given the use of species names as the pivot around which information is organised. To address the urgent questions around conservation, land-use, environmental change, sustainability, food security and ecosystem services that are facing Governments worldwide, we need to understand how the ecosystem works. So, we need a systems approach to understanding biodiversity that moves significantly beyond taxonomy and species observations. Such an approach needs to look at the whole system to address species interactions, both with their environment and with other species.It is clear that some barriers to progress are sociological, basically persuading people to use the technological solutions that are already available. This is best addressed by developing more effective systems that deliver immediate benefit to the user, hiding the majority of the technology behind simple user interfaces. An infrastructure should be a space in which activities take place and, as such, should be effectively invisible.This community consultation paper positions the role of biodiversity informatics, for the next decade, presenting the actions needed to link the various biodiversity infrastructures invisibly and to facilitate understanding that can support both business and policy-makers. The community considers the goal in biodiversity informatics to be full integration of the biodiversity research community, including citizens' science, through a commonly-shared, sustainable e-infrastructure across all sub-disciplines that reliably serves science and society alike.
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- 2013
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18. IKey+: a new single-access key generation web service.
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Burguiere T, Causse F, Ung V, and Vignes-Lebbe R
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- Algorithms, Asteraceae classification, Reproducibility of Results, Classification methods, Internet, Software
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Single-access keys are a major tool for biologists who need to identify specimens. The construction process of these keys is particularly complex (especially if the input data set is large) so having an automatic single-access key generation tool is essential. As part of the European project ViBRANT, our aim was to develop such a tool as a web service, thus allowing end-users to integrate it directly into their workflow. IKey+generates single-access keys on demand, for single users or research institutions. It receives user input data (using the standard SDD format), accepts several key-generation parameters (affecting the key topology and representation), and supports several output formats. IKey+is freely available (sources and binary packages) at www.identificationkey.fr. Furthermore, it is deployed on our server and can be queried (for testing purposes) through a simple web client also available at www.identificationkey.fr (last accessed 13 August 2012). Finally, a client plugin will be integrated to the Scratchpads biodiversity networking tool (scratchpads.eu).
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- 2013
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19. Development and validation of IIKC: an interactive identification key for Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) females from the Western Palaearctic region.
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Mathieu B, Cêtre-Sossah C, Garros C, Chavernac D, Balenghien T, Carpenter S, Setier-Rio ML, Vignes-Lebbe R, Ung V, Candolfi E, and Delécolle JC
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- Animals, Europe, Female, Reproducibility of Results, Ceratopogonidae anatomy & histology, Ceratopogonidae classification, Databases, Factual
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Background and Methods: The appearance of bluetongue virus (BTV) in 2006 within northern Europe exposed a lack of expertise and resources available across this region to enable the accurate morphological identification of species of Culicoides Latreille biting midges, some of which are the major vectors of this pathogen. This work aims to organise extant Culicoides taxonomic knowledge into a database and to produce an interactive identification key for females of Culicoides in the Western Palaearctic (IIKC: Interactive identification key for Culicoides). We then validated IIKC using a trial carried out by six entomologists based in this region with variable degrees of experience in identifying Culicoides., Results: The current version of the key includes 98 Culicoides species with 10 morphological variants, 61 descriptors and 837 pictures and schemes. Validation was carried out by six entomologists as a blind trial with two users allocated to three classes of expertise (beginner, intermediate and advanced). Slides were identified using a median of seven steps and seven minutes and user confidence in the identification varied from 60% for failed identifications to a maximum of 80% for successful ones. By user class, the beginner group successfully identified 44.6% of slides, the intermediate 56.8% and the advanced 74.3%., Conclusions: Structured as a multi-entry key, IIKC is a powerful database for the morphological identification of female Culicoides from the Western Palaearctic region. First developed for use as an interactive identification key, it was revealed to be a powerful back-up tool for training new taxonomists and to maintain expertise level. The development of tools for arthropod involvement in pathogen transmission will allow clearer insights into the ecology and dynamics of Culicoides and in turn assist in understanding arbovirus epidemiology.
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- 2012
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20. Cambrian archaeocyathan metazoans: revision of morphological characters and standardization of genus descriptions to establish an online identification tool.
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Kerner A, Debrenne F, and Vignes-Lebbe R
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Archaeocyatha represent the oldest calcified sponges and the first metazoans to build bioconstructions in association with calcimicrobes. They are a key group in biology, evolutionary studies, biostratigraphy, paleoecology and paleogeography of the early Cambrian times. The establishing of a new standardized terminology for archaeocyathans description has permitted the creation of the first knowledge base in English including descriptions of all archaeocyathan genera. This base, using the XPER² software package, is an integral part of the -Archaeocyatha- a knowledge base website, freely available at url http://www.infosyslab.fr/archaeocyatha. The website is composed of common information about Archaeocyatha, general remarks about the knowledge base, the description of the 307 genera recognized with images of type-specimens of type-species for each genus, as well as additional morphological data, an interactive free access key and its user guide.The automatic analysis and comparison of the digitized descriptions have identified some genera with highly similar morphology. These results are a great help for future taxonomic revisions and suggest a number of possible synonymies that require further study.
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- 2011
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21. Xper2: introducing e-taxonomy.
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Ung V, Dubus G, Zaragüeta-Bagils R, and Vignes-Lebbe R
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- Computer Graphics, Databases, Factual, Internet, Classification methods, Information Storage and Retrieval methods, Software
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Motivation: Computer Aided Identification systems provide users with the resources to relate morpho-anatomic observations with taxa names and to subsequently access other knowledge about the organisms. They have the ability to manage descriptive data and make identifications through interactive keys. They are essential for both authors and users of biodiversity information. Xper(2) version 2.0 is one of the most user-friendly tools in its category and provides a complete environment dedicated to taxonomic management., Availability: Xper(2) software can be freely downloaded at http://lis-upmc.snv.jussieu.fr/lis/?q=en/resources/softwares/xper2
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- 2010
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22. Metacanthomorpha: essay on a phylogeny-oriented database for morphology--the acanthomorph (teleostei) example.
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Dettai A, Bailly N, Vignes-Lebbe R, and Lecointre G
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- Animals, Classification methods, Databases, Factual, Fishes anatomy & histology, Phylogeny
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- 2004
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