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BACTERIA AND VIRUSES

  Archaea
    DR Boone, Portland State Univ, Portland, OR USA 
  
  Bacteria
    GE Olsen, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL USA
  
  Chlamydiales
    KDE Everett, Univ Georgia, Athens, GA USA  
  
  Cyanobacteria
    Sean Turner, NCBI/NLM/NIH, Bethesda, MD USA  
  
  Viruses 
    Eugene Koonin, NCBI/NLM/NIH, Bethesda, MD USA  

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CHROMOPHYTES, PLANTS AND FUNGI

  Angiosperms
    WJ Hahn, Columbia Univ, New York, NY USA
    DL Nickrent, Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale, IL USA 
    RG Olmstead, Univ Washington, Seattle WA USA 
    SJ Wagstaff, Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand   

  Chlorophyta (green algae)
    MA Buchheim, Univ Tulsa, OK USA
    RL Chapman, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA USA 

  Filicopsida (higher ferns)
    GJ Gastony, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN USA
    AR Smith, Univ California, Berkeley, CA USA  

  Fungi
    M Blackwell, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA USA (Ascomycota)
    DE Desjardin, San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA USA (Basidiomycota) 
    W Gams, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Baarn, The Netherlands (Ascomycota)
    SA Redhead, Agr & Agri Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada (Ascomycota)
    KA Seifert, Agr & Agri Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada (Basidiomycota)
    JW Taylor, Univ California, Berkeley, CA USA (Ascomycota)
    
  Phaeophyceae (brown algae)
    AF Peters, CNRS/Goëmar, Roscoff, France
               (apeters@sb-roscoff.fr)
   
  Rhodophyta
    S Fredericq, Univ Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA USA 
    DW Freshwater, Univ North Carolina, Wilmington, NC USA

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METAZOA

  Amphibians and fish
    IJ Harrison, American Mus Nat History, New York, NY USA
  
  Araneae (spiders)
    NI Platnick, American Mus Nat History, New York, NY USA  
  
  Chordata
    DM Hillis, Univ Texas, Austin, TX USA 
  
  Cirripedia
    R Van Syoc, California Academy Sciences, San Francisco, CA USA 
  
  Decapoda
    CW Hart, Jr. (retired)  
  
  Diptera
    M Ashburner, Cambridge Univ, Cambridge, England UK
    G Baechli, Univ Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland  
    HM Savage (mosquitoes), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
                            Fort Collins, CO USA 
  
  Hemiptera
    BC Campbell, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Albany, CA USA 
    RJ Gill, California Dept Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, CA USA 
    JT Sorensen, California Dept Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, CA USA 
  
  Holothuroidea (sea cucumbers)
    P Lambert, Royal British Columbia Mus, Victoria, Canada
    
  Lepidoptera
    JA Powell, Univ California, Berkeley, CA USA (moths)
    FAH Sperling, Univ Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (butterflies) 
    A Brower, Oregon State Univ, Corvalis, OR USA (butterflies)

  Metazoa
    DJ Eernisse, California State Univ, Fullerton, CA USA
    
  Platyhelminthes
    JL Justine, Museum Natl Hist Nat, Paris, France
    T Littlewood, Nat History Mus, London, England, UK
  
  Polychaeta
    K Fauchald, National Mus Nat History, Washington DC, USA
    
  Sauropsida (reptiles)
    GR Zug, National Mus Nat History, Washington DC, USA   
  
  Scorpiones
    WD Sissom, W Texas State Univ, Canyon, TX USA       

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OTHER EUKARYOTES

  Euglenozoa and Trichomonadida
    MA Farmer, Univ Georgia, Athens, GA USA 

  Leishmania
    JJ Shaw, Inst Evandro Chagas, Belem, Para, Brazil  

  Microsporidia
    N Pieniazek, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, GA USA  

  Protists
    ML Sogin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA USA
    AJ Roger, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H7, Canada 
              (aroger@is.dal.ca)
    AGB Simpson, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H7, Canada 
                 (simpson@hades.biochem.dal.ca)

  Stramenopiles
    David J Patterson, School of Biological Sciences,
                       University of Sydney, Australia
                       (paddy@mbl.edu)

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