[Killietalk] once again, trying to get K. caudomarginatus

["Bruce J. Turner, Dept. Biological Sciences, VPISU, Blacksburg, VA 24061" <fishgen at vt_edu>]

Reading Allan Semeit mention John Boylan inspires me once again to advertise 
my profound research need 
for Kryptolebias (formerly Rivulus) caudomarginatus.  I got a good stock from 
John many years ago, but 
one of my technicians at the time got careless and lost it in the F2 
generation, and I have never been able to 
get live animals since.  I can use specimens in any form, live, frozen, or 
fixed in alcohol (not formalin).

The stock is needed for making important comparisons with K. marmoratus.  K. 
caudomarginatus is the 
nearest thing to a conventionally-reproducing sister species that we have.  
Traditionally in the K. 
marmoratus world, comparisons have been made to R. cylindraceus, but we now 
know that the two are not 
nearly closely related enough for these to be informative except in the most 
general way.  Other 
Kryptolebias would be of interest, but K. caudomarginatus is the key 
comparison..

I had the funds and the means to go to Brazil myself to collect K. 
caudomarginatus (along with sympatric K. 
marmoratus) for over 10 years, but could not get collecting permits to do 
this.  This past September I had 
the totally sickening experience of watching these monies (about $15K) finally 
be resorbed by the bean 
counters at my university.  It's an experience I never want to repeat.  I 
still have enough funds to purchase 
specimens, however.

Please pass this note on to whatever other lists you think might be 
productive.

"For the strength of the Wolf is the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is the Wolf..."  Rudyard Kipling
"Not all who wander are lost..." J.R. Tolkien
"Truth, she lives in a distant land, of snow, and ice... and burning sand..."  Stephen Crane
"Life is short, dance naked and wiggle your ass!"  Big Daddy Catfish


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