BIG4 - Biosystematics, Informatics and Genetics of the big 4 insect groups: training tomorrow's researchers and entrepreneurs

Project Information

BIG4

Grant agreement ID: 642241

DOI 10.3030/642241

Project closed

EC signature date 1 December 2014

Start date 1 January 2015

End date 31 December 2018

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 3 874 278,60

EU contribution € 3 874 278,60

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (8)

Online showcases of phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses.

Showcase studies from ESR research to inspire other ESRs

Basic online training package in RevBayes.

Phylogenetic modelling and inference

Advanced open access semantic Web publishing of data and results

A set of BIG-4 related publications

Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System

Innovative system for biodiversity data operations

Advanced online training package in RevBayes.

Advanced topics of interest to BIG4

Project branding and promotional materials including web-based

Dissemination product increasing awareness about BIG4

“The Naturalist” online training package

Clear instructions how to adopt The Naturalist for insects

DINA-Specify online training package

A tool for efficient use of collection software DINA betaversion

Other (8)

A system as in 9 but for metagenomics

Computational system adapted to mixed insect genomes

Mid-term review meting

Meeting with fellows, members of consortium and REA representative to assess the work progress and achievements

Improved insect phylogenies

Resolved phylogenies with strongr node support

A cloud based storage and genomic data analysis system

Computational system adapted to insect genomes

Dissemination and communication activities

Wide-scope activities for dissemination of results

Appointment of SAB

Supervisory Board committee members selected

Innovative workflow for revisionary systematics

Faster and more efficient ways to study poorly known taxa

Version of Bio4j adapted for use with insect taxa

Graph-based database for big sets of data

Documents, reports (1)

PhD theses

Thesis resulting from BIG4 research and training. Delivery month 54: For ESRs enrolled in Stockholm University (ESRs 7, 11 and 14) and Charles University in Prague (ESRs 8 and 12) who, due to respective national requirements, will have an extra year after the funding phase of BIG4 is completed.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (3)

Metagenomic protocols for environmental samples including training tutorials.

For efficient use of bulk insect samples in nature monitoring

Protocols of DNA extractions from suboptimal tissues

For getting DNA from museum specimens

Protocols of non-destructive morphological specimen examination

For getting informative characters from fossils or rare specimens

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (36)

The thoracic anatomy of the male and female winter moth Nyssiodes lefuarius (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) and evolutionary changes in the thorax of moths and butterflies

Author(s): Si -Pei Liu, Benjamin Wipfler, Shuhei Niitsu, Rolf G. Beutel
Published in: Organisms Diversity & Evolution, Issue 17/3, 2017, Page(s) 565-594, ISSN 1439-6092
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-017-0328-4

The unique locomotor apparatus of whirligig beetles of the tribe Orectochilini ( Gyrinidae, Coleoptera )

Author(s): Si-Pei Liu, Benjamin Wipfler, Rolf G. Beutel
Published in: Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Issue Volume 56, Issue 2, 2017, Page(s) 196-208, ISSN 0947-5745
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12195

A spectacular new genus of Staphylinini rove beetle from the tropical Andes and its phylogenetic assessment (Coleoptera:Staphylinidae)

Author(s): Josh Jenkins Shaw, Dagmara Żyła, Alexey Solodovnikov
Published in: Invertebrate Systematics, Issue 31/6, 2017, Page(s) 713, ISSN 1445-5226
Publisher: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Publishing
DOI: 10.1071/is17020

A review of the Cercyon Leach (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae) of the Greater Antilles

Author(s): Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Matthias Seidel, Albert Deler-Hernández, Viktor Senderov, Martin Fikácek
Published in: ZooKeys, Issue 681, 2017, Page(s) 39-93, ISSN 1313-2989
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.681.12522

Strategies and guidelines for scholarly publishing of biodiversity data

Author(s): Lyubomir Penev, Daniel Mietchen, Vishwas Chavan, Gregor Hagedorn, Vincent Smith, David Shotton, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Pavel Stoev, Quentin Groom, David Remsen, Scott Edmunds
Published in: Research Ideas and Outcomes, Issue 3, 2017, Page(s) e12431, ISSN 2367-7163
Publisher: Pensoft
DOI: 10.3897/rio.3.e12431

ARPHA-BioDiv: A toolbox for scholarly publication and dissemination of biodiversity data based on the ARPHA Publishing Platform

Author(s): Lyubomir Penev, Teodor Georgiev, Peter Geshev, Seyhan Demirov, Viktor Senderov, Iliyana Kuzmova, Iva Kostadinova, Slavena Peneva, Pavel Stoev
Published in: Research Ideas and Outcomes, Issue 3, 2017, Page(s) e13088, ISSN 2367-7163
Publisher: Pensoft
DOI: 10.3897/rio.3.e13088

OpenBiodiv-O: ontology of the OpenBiodiv knowledge management system

Author(s): Viktor Senderov, Kiril Simov, Nico Franz, Pavel Stoev, Terry Catapano, Donat Agosti, Guido Sautter, Robert A. Morris, Lyubomir Penev
Published in: Journal of Biomedical Semantics, Issue 9/1, 2018, ISSN 2041-1480
Publisher: BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13326-017-0174-5

The past and the present through phylogenetic analysis: the rove beetle tribe Othiini now and 99 Ma

Author(s): Janina L. Kypke, Alexey Solodovnikov, Adam Brunke, Shûhei Yamamoto, Dagmara Żyła
Published in: Systematic Entomology, Issue 44/1, 2018, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 0307-6970
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12305

EMODnet Workshop on mechanisms and guidelines to mobilise historical data into biogeographic databases

Author(s): Sarah Faulwetter, Evangelos Pafilis, Lucia Fanini, Nicolas Bailly, Donat Agosti, Christos Arvanitidis, Laura Boicenco, Terry Catapano, Simon Claus, Stefanie Dekeyzer, Teodor Georgiev, Aglaia Legaki, Dimitra Mavraki, Anastasis Oulas, Gabriella Papastefanou, Lyubomir Penev, Guido Sautter, Dmitry Schigel, Viktor Senderov, Adrian Teaca, Marilena Tsompanou
Published in: Research Ideas and Outcomes, Issue 2, 2016, Page(s) e10445, ISSN 2367-7163
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/rio.2.e10445

OpenBiodiv: an Implementaion of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph

Author(s): Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Donat Agosti, Terry Catapano, Guido Sautter, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Nico Franz, Kiril Simov, Pavel Stoev, Lyubomir Penev
Published in: Proceedings of TDWG, Issue 1, 2017, Page(s) e20084, ISSN 2535-0897
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20084

OpenBiodiv Computer Demo: an Implementation of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph

Author(s): Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Donat Agosti, Terry Catapano, Guido Sautter, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Nico Franz, Kiril Simov, Pavel Stoev, Lyubomir Penev
Published in: Proceedings of TDWG, Issue 1, 2017, Page(s) e20193, ISSN 2535-0897
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20193

OpenBiodiv Poster: an Implementation of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph

Author(s): Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Donat Agosti, Terry Catapano, Guido Sautter, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Nico Franz, Kiril Simov, Pavel Stoev, Lyubomir Penev
Published in: Proceedings of TDWG, Issue 1, 2017, Page(s) e20246, ISSN 2535-0897
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20246

The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management (eco-)System: Tools and Services for Extraction, Mobilization, Handling and Re-use of Data from the Published Literature

Author(s): Lyubomir Penev, Donat Agosti, Teodor Georgiev, Viktor Senderov, Guido Sautter, Terry Catapano, Pavel Stoev
Published in: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Issue 2, 2018, Page(s) e25748, ISSN 2535-0897
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/biss.2.25748

A new genus of coprophagous water scavenger beetle from Africa (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae, Megasternini) with a discussion on the Cercyon subgenus Acycreon

Author(s): Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Matthias Seidel, Martin Fikáček
Published in: African Invertebrates, Issue 59/1, 2018, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 1681-5556
Publisher: Council of the Natal Museum
DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.59.14621

Two centipedes new to the fauna of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) and notes on the Lithobiomorpha of the island (Chilopoda, Myriapoda)

Author(s): Nesrine Akkari, Anne-Sarah Ganske
Published in: Biodiversity Data Journal, Issue 6, 2018, Page(s) e26746, ISSN 1314-2828
Publisher: Pensoft
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e26746

Review of the flower-inhabiting water scavenger beetle genus Cycreon (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae), with descriptions of new species and comments on its biology

Author(s): Arriaga-Varela,Emmanuel; Wong,Sin Yeng; Kirejtshuk,Alexander; Fikácek,Martin
Published in: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65(1):, Issue 4, 2018, Page(s) 99-115, ISSN 1860-1324
Publisher: Pensoft
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1258208

Dispersal of thermophilic beetles across the intercontinental Arctic forest belt during the early Eocene

Author(s): Adam J. Brunke, Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Brian D. Metscher, Karin Wolf-Schwenninger, Alexey Solodovnikov
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 7/1, 2017, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13207-4

A revision of the Oriental species of Bolitogyrus Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae)

Author(s): Adam J. Brunke
Published in: ZooKeys, Issue 664, 2017, Page(s) 1-97, ISSN 1313-2989
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.664.11881

New avatars for Myriapods: Complete 3D morphology of type specimens transcends conventional species description (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)

Author(s): Nesrine Akkari, Anne-Sarah Ganske, Ana Komerički, Brian Metscher
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/7, 2018, Page(s) e0200158, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200158

Whirling in the late Permian: ancestral Gyrinidae show early radiation of beetles before Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Author(s): Evgeny V. Yan, Rolf G. Beutel, John F. Lawrence
Published in: BMC Evolutionary Biology, Issue 18/1, 2018, ISSN 1471-2148
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1139-8

The peristomatic structures as a source of systematic characters in the genus Lithobius Leach, 1814 (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)

Author(s): Anne-Sarah Ganske, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Nesrine Akkari
Published in: ZooKeys, Issue 741, 2018, Page(s) 49-75, ISSN 1313-2989
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.741.21706

Morphology and biology of the flower-visiting water scavenger beetle genus Rygmodus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Author(s): Yûsuke N. Minoshima, Matthias Seidel, Jamie R. Wood, Richard A. B. Leschen, Nicole L. Gunter, Martin Fikáček
Published in: Entomological Science, Issue 21/4, 2018, Page(s) 363-384, ISSN 1343-8786
Publisher: Entomological Society of Japan
DOI: 10.1111/ens.12316

Breaking a Disjunct Distribution: A Review of the Southern Hemisphere Genera Cylorygmus and Relictorygmus gen. nov. (Hydrophilidae: Cylominae)

Author(s): Matthias Seidel, Yûsuke N. Minoshima, Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Martin Fikáček
Published in: Annales Zoologici, Issue 68/2, 2018, Page(s) 375-402, ISSN 0003-4541
Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2018.68.2.011

New mitochondrial primers for metabarcoding of insects, designed and evaluated using in silico methods

Author(s): Daniel Marquina, Anders F. Andersson, Fredrik Ronquist
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 19/1, 2019, Page(s) 90-104, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12942

Establishment of Cylominae Zaitzev, 1908 as a valid name for the subfamily Rygmodinae Orchymont, 1916 with an updated list of genera (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Author(s): Seidel M., Arriaga-Varela E. & Fikacek M.
Published in: Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 2016, Page(s) 159-165, ISSN 0374-1036
Publisher: Narodni Muzeum

Systematic and biogeographic review of the Staphylinini rove beetles of Lord Howe Island with description of new species and taxonomic changes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Author(s): Josh Jenkins Shaw, Alexey Solodovnikov
Published in: ZooKeys, Issue 638, 2016, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 1313-2989
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.638.10883

Clidicostigus gen. nov., the first Mesozoic genus of Mastigini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Cenomanian Burmese amber

Author(s): Paweł Jałoszyński, Adam J. Brunke, Brian Metscher, Wei-Wei Zhang, Ming Bai
Published in: Cretaceous Research, Issue 72, 2017, Page(s) 110-116, ISSN 0195-6671
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.12.022

Species Conservation Profiles compliant with the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Author(s): Pedro Cardoso, Pavel Stoev, Teodor Georgiev, Viktor Senderov, Lyubomir Penev
Published in: Biodiversity Data Journal, Issue 4, 2016, Page(s) e10356, ISSN 1314-2828
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e10356

The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System in Scholarly Publishing

Author(s): Viktor Senderov, Lyubomir Penev
Published in: Research Ideas and Outcomes, Issue 2, 2016, Page(s) e7757, ISSN 2367-7163
Publisher: Pensoft
DOI: 10.3897/rio.2.e7757

The peril of dating beetles

Author(s): EMMANUEL F. A. TOUSSAINT, MATTHIAS SEIDEL, EMMANUEL ARRIAGA-VARELA, JIŘÍ HÁJEK, DAVID KRÁL, LUKAŠ SEKERKA, ANDREW E. Z. SHORT, MARTIN FIKÁČEK
Published in: Systematic Entomology, Issue 42/1, 2017, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 0307-6970
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12198

Online direct import of specimen records into manuscripts and automatic creation of data papers from biological databases

Author(s): Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Lyubomir Penev
Published in: Research Ideas and Outcomes, Issue 2, 2016, Page(s) e10617, ISSN 2367-7163
Publisher: Pensoft
DOI: 10.3897/rio.2.e10617

The first fossil rove beetle from the middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation (North America) provides evidence for ancient Eocene relicts within the hyperdiverse Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)

Author(s): Adam J. Brunke, Harald Schillhammer, Stylianos Chatzimanolis
Published in: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2017, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 1477-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1266402

The remarkable Australian rove beetle genus Myotyphlus : its cryptic diversity and significance for exploring mutualism among insects and mammals (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Author(s): Alexey Solodovnikov, Josh Jenkins Shaw
Published in: Austral Entomology, 2016, ISSN 2052-174X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/aen.12233

Phylogeny of the hyper-diverse rove beetle subtribe Philonthina with implications for classification of the tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Author(s): Mariana R. Chani-Posse, Adam James Brunke, Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Harald Schillhammer, Alexey Solodovnikov
Published in: Cladistics, Issue 34/1, 2018, Page(s) 1-40, ISSN 0748-3007
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cla.12188

Origin and diversification of hoverflies: a revision of the genera Asarkina and Allobaccha – A BIG4 Consortium PhD project

Author(s): Trevor Burt, Ximo Mengual
Published in: Research Ideas and Outcomes, Issue 3, 2017, Page(s) e19860, ISSN 2367-7163
Publisher: Pensoft
DOI: 10.3897/rio.3.e19860

Morphology of the mandibles and the first maxillae in the family Lithobiidae (Myriapoda, Chilopoda), with remarks on their phylogenetic significance

Author(s): Anne-Sarah Ganske, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Nesrine Akkari
Published in: Journal of Morphology, Issue 279/12, 2018, Page(s) 1798-1826, ISSN 0362-2525
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20902