FISHBOL.org: Fish Barcode of Life Initiative

Workshop Program and documents

Theme 1: Fish-BOL: What it’s all about	(Chair Bob Hanner)
Background to the Barcode of Life	Paul Hebert
A Plan to Barcode All Fish	Bob Ward

Theme 2: Enabling Tools	(Chair Haile Yancy)
Analytical Capacity and Approaches	Lee Weigt
Barcode of Life Data (BOLD) Systems	Sujeevan Ratnasingham
FishBase	Nicolas Bailly
GenBank	Scott Federhen

Theme 3: Fish Genes – From Barcodes to Tree of Life	(Chair Allan Connell)
Barcoding Australian Fish	Bronwyn Innes
Barcoding Fishes - Intercontinental Efforts	Tyler Zemlak
Planetary Bio: Catfishes	John Lundberg
Tree of Life: Cypriniformes	Rick Mayden
Fish Mitochondrial Genomes	Masaki Miya

Theme 4: Enabling Organizations	(Chair Jim Boutillier)
World Fish Centre	Menchie Ablan
CBOL	David Schindel
ITIS	Tom Orrell

Theme 5: Taxonomic Perspectives	(Chair Ekaterina Vasilieva)
The Diversity of Bony Fishes	Bruce Collette
The Diversity of Cartilaginous and other Fishes	Peter Last
Vouchering Specimens	Richard Winterbottom
DNA Repositories	Angelique Corthals

Theme 6: Regional Perspectives	(Chair Juan Diaz de Astarloa)
North America	Phil Hastings
Central America	Biff Bermingham
South America	Ricardo Galleguillos
Europe	Gary Carvalho
Oceania	Serge Planes
New Zealand and Antarctica	Peter Smith
Australia	Bob Ward

Theme 6: Regional Perspectives	(Chair Fang Kullander)
Asia	Mutsumi Nishida
Russia	Yuri Kartavtsev
India	Wazir Lakra
Africa and Malagasy	Robert Schelly

Theme 7: Organizational Issues and the Fish-BOL Network	(Chair David Schindel)
Organizational Issues	David Schindel

Guest Presentation
Fish Genomics in Canada	Christian Burks

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FishFind	Species lists by FAO areas (MS Access)
Fish Collections	Catalogue of tissue depositories (MS Access)
FISH-BOL Tissue Survey	Results of an informal pre-conference survey of available tissues (MS Excel)