Early Collaborators

Early collaborators to this initiative are:

• Amy Henry, Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu (United States)
• Dramane Kaba, Institute Pierre Richet / INSP, BP. V 47, Abidjan, Ivory Cost (Africa)

Participants

Authors having uploaded reference images:

• Jean-Pierre Dujardin, UMR IRD-CNRS 2724, Agropolis, 911, BP 64501, 34394, Montpellier, France
• Amy Henry, Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
• Dramane Kaba, Institute Pierre Richet / INSP, BP. V 47, Abidjan, Ivory Cost
• Sangvorn Kitthawee, Faculty of Sciences, Mahidol University, Rama VI Rd., Bangkok 10400, Thailand
• Panpim Thongsripong, Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
• David Alonso Calle, Grupo de Chagas, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
• Martha Lucia Quinones, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, D.C. Colombia
• Holmes Francisco Erazo, Departamento Administrativo de Salud de Putumayo, Mocoa, Colombia
• Nicolas Jaramillo, Grupo de Chagas, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
• Lincoln Suesdek, Secao de Parasitologia, Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil; Biologia da Relacao Patogeno-Hospedeiro, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil
• Sirlei Antunes de Morais, Departamento de Epidemiologia, Faculdade de Saude Publica, Brasil
• Camila Moratore, Secao de Parasitologia, Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil; Biologia da Relacao Patogeno-Hospedeiro, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil
• Mauro Toledo Marrelli, Departamento de Epidemiologia, Faculdade de Saude Publica, Brasil
• Ronald Morales, Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 420/6 Ratchawithi Road, Ratchthewi, Bangkok, Thailand
• Phubeth Ya-umphan, Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 420/6 Ratchawithi Road, Ratchthewi, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
• Noppawan Phumala-Morales, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Sciences, Mahidol University, Rama VI Rd., Bangkok 10400, Thailand
• Narumon Komalamisra, Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 420/6 Ratchawithi Road, Ratchthewi, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
• Edna Marquez, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia
• Andres Gomez-Palacio, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
• D. Augot, USC Vecpar, AFSSA LERPAZ, JE2533, Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, UFR Pharmacie, 51 rue Cognacq-Jay, 51100 Reims, France
• Jiraporn Ruangsittichai, Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 420/6 Ratchawithi Road, Ratchthewi, Bangkok, Thailand
• Chamnarn Apiwathnasorn, Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 420/6 Ratchawithi Road, Ratchthewi, Bangkok, Thailand
• Diego Ayala, IRD, UMR 224 MIVEGEC/BEES, 911 Av Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier, France
• Harling Caro-Riano, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
• Nil Rahola, IRD, UMR 224 MIVEGEC/BEES, 911 Av Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier, France
• Frederic Simard, IRD, UMR 224 MIVEGEC/BEES, 911 Av Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier, France; IRSS-DRO, BP 545, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
• Didier Fontenille, IRD, UMR 224 MIVEGEC/BEES, 911 Av Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier, France
• Paloma Oliveira Vidal, Secao de Parasitologia, Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil; Biologia da Relacao Patogeno-Hospedeiro, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil
• Jorian Jorian Prudhomme, UMR MIVEGEC (IRD 224-CNRS 5290-Universites Montpellier 1 et 2), Montpellier, F-34394, France
• Filiz Gunay, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ecology Section, ESRL Laboratories, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey, kaynas@hacettepe.edu.tr
• Nil Rahola, UMR MIVEGEC (IRD 224-CNRS 5290-Universites Montpellier 1 et 2), Montpellier, F-34394, France
• Fouad Ouanaimi, Universite Cadi Ayyad, Faculte des Sciences Semlalia, Equipe Ecologie Animale et Environnement-LabL2E (URAC 32), BP 2390-40080 Marrakech-Maroc
• Souad Guernaoui, Universite Cadi Ayyad, Faculte des Sciences Semlalia, Equipe Ecologie Animale et Environnement-LabL2E (URAC 32), BP 2390-40080 Marrakech-Maroc
• Ali Boumezzough, Universite Cadi Ayyad, Faculte des Sciences Semlalia, Equipe Ecologie Animale et Environnement-LabL2E (URAC 32), BP 2390-40080 Marrakech-Maroc
• Anne-Laure Banuls, UMR MIVEGEC (IRD 224-CNRS 5290-Universites Montpellier 1 et 2), Montpellier, F-34394, France
• Denis Sereno, UMR MIVEGEC (IRD 224-CNRS 5290-Universites Montpellier 1 et 2), Montpellier, F-34394, France
• Bulent Alten, UMR MIVEGEC (IRD 224-CNRS 5290-Universites Montpellier 1 et 2), Montpellier, F-34394, France; and Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ecology Section, ESRL Laboratories, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
• A. Murat Aytekin, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ecology Section, ESRL Laboratories, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
• Selim S. Caglar, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ecology Section, ESRL Laboratories, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, TurkeyLI>
• Ozge Erisoz Kasap, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ecology Section, ESRL Laboratories, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
• Sinan Kaynas, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ecology Section, ESRL Laboratories, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey, kaynas@hacettepe.edu.tr
• Asli Belen, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ecology Section, ESRL Laboratories, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
• Yusuf Ozbel, Ege University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, 35100, Izmir, Turkey
• Fatih M. Simsek, Adnan Menderes University, Art and Science Faculty, Department of Biology, 09010, Aydin, Turkey

The CLIC initiative

The Field insects are preferred to laboratory ones because it is likely that the laboratory conditions of life affect size and shape. Furthermore, because of additional founder and genetic drift effects, these changes are more and more important with time.

Go to the CLIC Bank

The CLIC initiative

The CLIC initiative is a web space containing reference images to classify organisms. CLIC tries to exploit the morphometric tool to identify and distinguish at best already defined species ( Dujardin et al., BMC Research Notes 2010, 3:266 ).

Conditions are:

• Published works
  Only reference images associated to published workswould be accepted in the CLIC database. Thus, reference images must have been used in published (or accepted, or in press) papers, and copyright would be given to authors of the corresponding publication.
• Environmental data
  Since it is using a phenetic approach to identify or characterize evolutionary units, CLIC will take into account their environment. Therefore, reference images must be not only labeled as species, they should ideally correspond to field insects documented for their geographic origin, their date of capture, and if possible for other parameters defining their habitats.
• Morality 🙂
  To give the morphometric comparisons the best chances to work properly, sexes should be kept separate.
• Shape and size
  To accurately recover the true size, each image should contain the size scale and/or related informations about resolution and technical devices used to produce it.
• Copyright
  The copyright of the images go to the authors of the publication(s).

Another such initiative in medical entomology is the WINGBANK :

(Flávia Virginio, Lincoln Suesdek, Kelly Rosa Braghetto)

PROCRUSTES CLASSIFICATION and MAHALANOBIS CLASSIFICATION

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A. Please join in one single file the coordinates of the reference images you downloaded from the CLIC bank.

B. Apply MOG on this file. After the computing of PW and RW by MOG, push the EXT/UNKN button. It asks for the file where you have the raw coordinates of the external, unknown individuals

C. Open that file (external, unknown individuals): the Procrustes classification starts immediately

D. After the Procrustes classification ends, you may ask for the “Mahalanobis classification”. Just select “Mahalanobis classification” in the submenu of the MENU “Discriminant analyzes”. The classification starts immediately