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Museum natural-history collections as a resource for biodiversity conservation: the case study of Potamophylax cingulatus

Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research
30 Nov 2022

Job Information

Organisation/Company
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Research Field
Biological sciences » Other
Researcher Profile
Recognised Researcher (R2)
Leading Researcher (R4)
First Stage Researcher (R1)
Established Researcher (R3)
Country
Italy
Application Deadline
Type of Contract
To be defined
Job Status
Not Applicable
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by an EU programme
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No

Offer Description

Museum natural-history collections are important source of biological data, useful for different biodiversity assessment and conservation plans. The morphological approaches should be completed with genetic analyses, to achieve species determination. This is suitable for invertebrates which show a high complexity of diversity, complicated by the presence similar, sibling or cryptic species. This project stems from a collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Bergamo and focuses on a Trichoptera species group, Potamophylax cingulatus, for which the taxonomic definition of species and sub-species is still an open question.The proposed objectives are:
1) To set up a laboratory protocol to obtain DNA of a good quality from the museum samples.
2) To obtain and deposeited the COI sequences for the Potamophylax collection samples, in Genbank and BOLD database as a reference for the barcoding.
3) To define the phylogeny and distribution of the Italian Potamophylax taxa

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Eligibility criteria

Eligible destination country/ies for fellows:

  • Italy

Eligibility of fellows: country/ies of residence:

  • EUROPE

Eligibility of fellows: nationality/ies:

  • EUROPE
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Work Location(s)

Number of offers available
1
Company/Institute
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Country
Italy

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City
Varese
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