Dear Vijay and Kishen, Thanks for your interest in this topic and for bringing it up on the group. Ullasa and I have been sequencing material from India and you must have seen Ullasa's paper on bushbrowns (Mycalesis and allied genera). I am currently sequencing all Indian Papilio and all Asian Menelaides (subgenus of Papilio that includes polytes, memnon, helenus, castor, etc.). There will be more of similar studies in coming years, and other teams are also getting into sequencing Indian species. I have just started a major project on Eastern Himalayan butterflies, starting with my Sikkim work, and I will try to collect as many genera and species from this area as possible in coming years. I hope to have majority of genera represented within the next couple of years. I hope that at least some of you will join us in collecting specimens for this ambitious project.
With best wishes, --- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD Post-doctoral Research Fellow FAS Center for Systems Biology Harvard University 52 Oxford St Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Ph: (617) 496-0078 Cell: (512) 577-1370 Fax: (617) 495-2196 Email: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kishen Das [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 9:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Butterflies, moths get barcode treatment We should have something similar for our moths and butterflies. Institutions like NCBS and IISc already have the infrastructure for carrying out such projects. I believe people are already working towards it. Dr. Kunte and Dr. Kodandaramaiah should have specific details. Kishen On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Vijay Barve <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi This sounds like and interesting and useful project. http://diversityindianews.blogspot.com/2011/05/butterflies-moths-get-barcode-treatment.html What are your views on this ? Regards, Vijay -- --- Vijay Vasant Barve http://diversityindia.org/ --- ------------------------------------ --- Follow http://twitter.com/DiversityIndia ---Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ButterflyIndia/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ButterflyIndia/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Enjoy
