Joint Experimental Molecular Unit (JEMU)

The Joint Experimental Molecular Unit (JEMU) is an integrated research infrastructure funded by the Belgian Science Policy and supported by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS, Brussels) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Tervuren). JEMU aims at supporting scientific research on natural history collections in the fields of DNA barcoding, phylogeny reconstruction and archiving biological specimens. Read more...

	DNA barcoding of raptors (genus Accipiter) based on museum specimens (Sept. 2012)	A reference library for the identification of forensically important flesh fly species  (Sept. 2012)
	About the difficult identification of two greenbottle fly species of forensic interest (Sept. 2012)	JEMU contributes to the debate on the use of subspecies in vertebrates (Aug. 2012)
Chapter published in the series "Methods in Molecular Biology", Humana Press, Springer (Jul. 2012)	Communication on the diversity of a cosmopolite amphipod species (Jun. 2012)	Over 40 undescribed reptile species reported in a genetic study on Madagascar (Apr. 2012)
Host Shifts from Lamiales to Brassicaceae in the Sawfly Genus Athalia (Apr. 2012)	Identifying insects with incomplete DNA barcode libraries (Apr. 2012)	Setting up a state-of-the-art tissue and DNA storage facility in RMCA and RBINS (Jan. 2012)
JEMU uses taxonomy to refute creationists' anti - evolutionary claims (Dec. 2011)	JEMU delegation in the 4th International Barcode of Life Conference (Dec. 2011)

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