Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As Geoff has noted, publication of the Ninth International Polychaete Conference, held in Portland, Maine, USA in August 2007 is at hand. The publication date is this Monday, 31 August 2009. On that day, the web site will be opened and hardcopies of the book will be sent to Conference participants and other subscribers. We are anticipating that all papers will eventually be Open Access, but this may not be complete on Monday; financing is still being arranged.
The volume includes a preface, four invited obituaries, and 35 peer-reviewed manuscripts. There are numerous new species, important morphological topics, ecological survey results, and other biological topics. There are some “gems” included which will most certainly stimulate some discussion at this Site.
Nancy and I would like to thank Dr. Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Editor-in-Chief of Zootaxa, for his enthusiasm and tireless support during the preparation of this volume. After the Madrid Conference when it became apparent that the next Conference would be Portland, Maine, I approached Dr. Zhang about the possibility of publishing an interdisciplinary zoological topic in Zootaxa. His response was to establish a separate journal, Zoosymposia, for that very purpose. The first topic on molluscs was published last year; our polychaete book will be the second.
The reference for this volume will be:
Maciolek, N.J. and J.A. Blake (Editors). 2009. Proceedings of the Ninth International Polychaete Conference, August 2007, Portland, Maine, USA. Zoosymposia 2:1–600. Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand.
Jim
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James A. Blake, Ph.D.
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