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A new infraorder of sternorrhynchan bugs described by researchers from the Museum of Amber Inclusions

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An international research team with the participation of Dr hab. Jacek Szwedo, prof. UG and Dr Dagmara Żyła from the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology UG published a paper – Drohojowska, J., Szwedo, J., Żyła, D., Huang, D.-Y., Müller, P. (2020) Fossils reshape the Sternorrhyncha evolutionary tree (Insecta, Hemiptera.) Sci Rep 10, 11390. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68220-x – in which a new infraorder of these bugs was described (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha).

Contaminants in the Arctic

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EN: Exposure of a small Arctic seabird, the little auk (Alle alle) breeding in Svalbard, to selected elements throughout the course of a year

 

Aneta Dorota Pacyna-Kuchta, Dariusz Jakubas, Marcin Frankowski, Żaneta Polkowska, Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas

Science of The Total Environment, Available online 3 May 2020, 139103.

 

The results of study on Antarctic seabirds in "Science of the Total Environment”

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The results of study on Antarctic seabirds [effect of the collaboration between our faculty researchers (Ph.D. student and two researchers from Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology) and the researcher from the University of Western Australia], funded by National Science Centre, Poland, have just been published in the “Science of the Total Environment”.

New holotypes in the collection of Museum of Amber Inclusions

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Museum of Amber Inclusions, established in 1998, is intergral part of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Entomology and Museum of Amber Inclusions, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology at Faculty of Biology University of Gdańsk. The Museum collection enriched recently with subsequent holotypes – the specimens on which scientific names are based, in this case – extinct dipterans preserved as inclusion in the Eocene Baltic amber. Holotypes and paratypes are the most precious specimens in scientific collections, Museum of Amber Inclusions houses now 82 type specimens.