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Title: Unit VI IAS Specimen Collection, Identification, and Preservation


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- Unit VI -IAS Specimen Collection,
Identification, and Preservation
Rebecca M. Westbrooks Randy G. WestbrooksSteven
Manning
Global Invasive Species ProgrammeCape Town,
South Africa
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GISP Prevention Training Course.Day Five 15
December, 2006.
  • 0900-0915. Field Trip Evaluation. (Sandy
    Johnson).
  • 0915-0945. Unit 6 - IAS Specimen Collection and
    Identification. (Becky Westbrooks).
  • 0945-1015. Unit 7 IAS Decisionmaking Tools,
    IAS Risk Assessment (Randy Westbrooks).
  • 1015-1030. Tea.
  • 1030-1100. Unit 7 Lab Exercise - Weed Risk
    Assessment Beach Vitex.
  • 1100-1130. Basic Elements of a National IAS
    Prevention Strategy. (Steve Manning).
  • 1130-1200. The Way Forward - Workshop Summary and
    Next Steps for IAS Collaboration and Partnering
    in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. (Lynn
    Jackson, Becky Westbrooks, Steve Manning, Randy
    Westbrooks).
  • 1200-1230. Goodbyes, Pictures, Contact Directory.

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Specimen Collection and ID
  • 6.1. Specimen Collection Guidelines
  • Wild Populations Minimal of Specimens
  • Port Collections Adequate Specimens for
    Identification
  • 6.2. Specimen ID Resources
  • Numerous Online Resources (Textbook P. 170)

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6.3. Traditional Dichotomous Keys
  • Series of Successive Couplets
  • Couplet Describes some Feature
  • of Organism being Identified
  • Couplet 1. Seeds Round Soybean
  • Seeds Oblong Go to 2
  • Couplet 2. Seeds White Navy Beans
  • Seeds Black Cuban Black Beans

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6.4. Computer Assisted ID Online Resources
  • Arbor Day Foundation
  • Tree ID Key
  • Amateur Entomology Key to Insect ID
  • Earth Life Web Production
  • Online Key to Insect Orders
  • Lucid Online ID Keys
  • Numerous Online Keys for Insects, Plants, and
    etc.
  • Lucid Key for U.S. Federal Noxious Weed Seeds
    (USDA APHIS)
  • Lucid Key for Scale Insects (USDA APHIS)

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6.5. Online Invasive Species Databases.
  • Global Invasive Species Network
  • Coordinated by USGS BRD
  • Global Invasive Species Database
  • World Conservation Unit Invasive Species
    Specialist Group Based in New Zealand
  • Plants Database
  • USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

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6.6. DNA Bar Coding Consortium for the Bar
Code of Life (CBOL)
  • Practical Methods for Rapid ID of the estimated
    10 Million Species of Life of Earth
  • Global Standard in Taxonomy Especially for
    Non-Taxonomists
  • 130 Member Organizations in 40 Countries
    (Botanical Gardens, Zoos, Herbaria, etc.)

Louisiana Crayfish(Procambarus clarkii)
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Principles of DNA Bar Coding
  • Short Gene Sequence from Standardized Region of
    the Genome
  • DNA Bar Coding Outgrowth of Molecular Biology

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6.7. Port ID Reference Collection
  • Specimen Collection
  • Wild Populations
  • Specimens Collected in the Port
  • Specimen Preparation
  • Insects
  • Plants
  • Seeds

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6.7. Port ID Reference Collection
  • Plant Diseases
  • Photographs
  • Aquatic Nuisance Species
  • Preserved Specimens
  • Photographs
  • Dried Specimens
  • Injurious Wildlife
  • Mounted Specimens

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Unknown Specimens Collected on Beach in Dar es
Salaam, TNZ
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Recommendation Put in Quarantine and/or
Fumigate until Positively Identified
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