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Mike Dallwitz miked at ENTO.CSIRO.AU
Wed Apr 27 16:37:34 CDT 1994 

                                                                  27 April 1994



               Applications and Documentation of the DELTA System

                                 27 April 1994

These references relate only to the DELTA programs developed in the CSIRO
Division of Entomology. References relating to Richard Pankhurst's DELTA
programs (PANKEY, PANDORA) are not included. The list will be published in the
forthcoming DELTA Newsletter.

Aiken, S. G., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1991). Festuca (Poaceae) of North America:
  interactive identification and information retrieval. Flora Online 26.

Aiken, S. G., and Darbyshire, S. J. (1983). `Grass Genera of Western Canadian
  Cattle Rangelands.' 173pp. (Canadian Government Publishing Centre: Ottawa.)

Aiken, S. G., and Darbyshire, S. J. (1990). `Fescue Grasses of Canada.' 113pp.
  (Canadian Government Publishing Centre: Ottawa.)

Berendsohn, W. (1991). `The Arboreal Vegetation of the Laderas de La Laguna, a
  Neotropical Forest Fragment en El Salvador, C.A.' (J. Cramer: Berlin.)

Boswell, K. F., Dallwitz, M. J., Gibbs, A. J., and Watson, L. (1986). The VIDE
  (Virus Identification Data Exchange) project: a data bank for plant viruses.
  Review of Plant Pathology 65, 221-231.

Boswell, K. F., and Gibbs, A. J. (1983). `Viruses of Legumes 1983. Descriptions
  and Keys from VIDE.' (Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian
  National University: Canberra.)

Boswell, K. F., and Gibbs, A. J. (1986). The VIDE (Virus Identification Data
  Exchange) project: a data bank for plant viruses. In `Development and
  Applications in Virus Testing'. (Eds R. A. C. Jones and L. Torrance.) pp.
  283-287. (Association of Applied Biologists: UK.)

Britton, E. B. (1986). A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera:
  Scarabaeidea: Melolonthinae). Vol. 4. Tribe Liparetrini: genus Colpochila.
  Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. ser. 118, 1-135.

Bruhl, J. J., Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1992). Genera of Cyperaceae:
  interactive identification and information retrieval. Taxon 41, 225-235.

Brunt, A., Crabtree, K., and Gibbs, A. (eds) (1990). `Viruses of Tropical
  Plants. Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database.' (CAB International:
  Wallingford.)

Bu"chen-Osmond, C., Crabtree, K., Gibbs, A., and McLean, G. (eds) (1988).
  `Viruses of Plants in Australia. Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE
  Database.' (Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National
  University: Canberra.)

Christiansen, K. A., Bellinger, P. F., and da Gama, M. M. (1990). Computer
  assisted identification of specimens of Pseudosinella (Collembola
  Entomobryidae). Rev. Ecol. Biol. Sol 27, 231-246.

Dallwitz, M. J. (1974). A flexible computer program for generating
  identification keys. Syst. Zool. 23, 50-7.

Dallwitz, M. J. (1980). A general system for coding taxonomic descriptions.
  Taxon 29, 41-6.

Dallwitz, M. J. (1984). Automatic typesetting of computer-generated keys and
  descriptions. In `Databases in Systematics', Systematics Association Special
  Volume No. 26, pp. 279-90. (Eds R. Allkin and F.A. Bisby.) (Academic Press:
  London.)

Dallwitz, M. J. (1989). Diagnostic descriptions from INTKEY and CONFOR. DELTA
  Newsletter 3, 8-13.

Dallwitz, M. J. (1989). Diagnostic descriptions for groups of taxa. DELTA
  Newsletter 4 8-13.

Dallwitz, M. J. (1992). A comparison of matrix-based taxonomic identification
  systems with rule-based sytems. In `Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Expert
  Systems in Agriculture', pp. 215-8. (Ed. F. L. Xiong.) (International
  Academic Publishers: Beijing.)

Dallwitz, M. J. (1992). An introduction to computer images. TDWG Newsletter 7,
  1-3. Reprinted in Delta Newsletter 8, 7-9.

Dallwitz, M. J. (1993). DELTA and INTKEY. In `Advances in computer methods for
  systematic biology: artificial intelligence, databases, computer vision', pp.
  287-296. (Ed. R. Fortuner.) (The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore,
  Maryland.)

Dallwitz, M. J., Paine, T. A., and Zurcher, E. J. (1993). `User's Guide to the
  DELTA System: a General System for Processing Taxonomic Descriptions.' 4th
  edition. (CSIRO Division of Entomology: Canberra.)

Dallwitz, M. J. and Zurcher, E. J. (1988). `User's Guide to TYPSET: A Computer
  Typesetting Program.' 2nd edition. CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Rep. No. 18,
  1-25

de Pernia, N. E., and Miller, R. B. (1991). Adapting the IAWA list of
  microscopic features for hardwood identification to DELTA. IAWA Bulletin n.
  s. 12, 34-50

Dorda, E. and Ferna'ndez Casas, J. (1989). Estudios morfolo'gicos en el ge'nero
  Narcissus L. Anatomi'a de hoja y escapo, III. Fontqueria 27, 103-162.

Edgar, E. (198?). A revision of the genus Poa in New Zealand. New Zealand J.
  Bot. ??, ??-??.

Gibbs Russell, G. E., Watson, L., Koekemoer, M., Smook, L., Barker, N. P.,
  Anderson, H. M., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1990). `Grasses of Southern Africa. An
  Identification Manual with Keys, Descriptions, Classification and Automated
  Identification and Information Retrieval from Computerized Data.' Memoirs of
  the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 58. 437 pp. (Botanical Research
  Institute: Pretoria.)

Kakudidi, E. K. Z., Lazarides, M., and Carnahan, J. A. (1989). A revision of
  Enneapogon (Poaceae, Pappophoreae) in Australia. Aust. Syst. Bot. 1, 325-353.

Kirkbride, J. H. (1993). `Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis
  (Cucurbitaceae). ' 159 pp. + floppy disk. (Parkway Publishers: Boone, North
  Carolina.)

Lawrence, J. F., Hastings, A. M., Dallwitz, M. J. and Paine, T. A. (1993).
  `Beetle Larvae of the World.' CD-ROM, Version 1.0 for MS-DOS. (CSIRO
  Publications: Melbourne.)

Linder, H. P. and Ellis, R. P. (1990). A revision of Pentaschistis (Arundineae:
  Poaceae). Contrib. Bolus Herb. 12, 1-124.

Lowry, J. K. and Stoddart, H. E. (1993a). Crustacea Amphipoda : Lysianassoids
  from Philippine and Indonesian waters. In `Re'sultats des Campagnes
  MUSORSTOM, Volume 10'. (Ed. A. Crosnier.) Me'm. Mus. natn. Hist. Nat. 156,
  55-109.

Lowry, J. K. and Stoddart, H. E. (1993b). The Onisimus problem (Amphipoda,
  Lysianassoidea, Uristidae). Zoologica Scripta 22, 167-181.

McLachlan, K. I., Aiken, S. G., Lefkovitch, L. P., and Edlund, S. A. (1989).
  Grasses of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Can. J. Bot. 67, 2088-2105.

O'Brien, C. W., and Askevold, I. S. (1992). Systematics and evolution of
  weevils of the genus Bagous Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), I. Species of
  Australia. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 118 331-452.

Partridge, T. R., Dallwitz, M. J., and Watson, L. (1993). `A Primer for the
  DELTA System.' 3rd edition. (CSIRO Division of Entomology: Canberra.)

Shaw, R. B. and Webster, R. D. (1987). The genus Eriochloa (Poaceae: Paniceae)
  in North and Central America. SIDA 12, 165-207.

Simon, B. K (1992). A revision of the genus Aristida (Poaceae) in Australia.
  Aust. Syst. Bot. 5, 129-226.

Simon, B. K. (1992). Studies in Australian grasses 6. Alexfloydia,
  Cliffordiochloa and Dallwatsonia, three new panicoid grass genera from
  eastern Australia. Austrobaileya 3, 669-681.

Snyder, D. E., and Muth, R. T. (1990). `Descriptions and Identification of
  Razorback, Flannelmouth, White, Utah, Bluehead, and Mountain Sucker Larvae
  and Early Juveniles.' Colorado Division of Wildlife Technical Publication No.
  38.

Taylor, R. W. (1978). A taxonomic guide to the ant genus Orectognathus
  (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Rep. No. 3, 11 pp. +
  microfiche.

Taylor, R. W. (1979). New Australian ants of the genus Orectognatus, with
  summary description of the twenty-nine known species (Hymenoptera:
  Formidicae). Aust. J. Zool. 27, 773-788.

Taylor, R. W. (1990). New Asian ants of the tribe Basicerotini, with an on-line
  computer interactive key to the twenty-six known Indo-Australian species
  (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Invertebr. Taxon. 4 397-425.

Thrane, U. (1991). FUSKEY, an interactive computer key to common Fusarium
  species. Mycotoxin Research 7A, Part 1, 50-53.

Trockenbrodt, M., and Richter, H. G. (1993). `Entwicklung eines
  computergestu"tzten Systems zur Holzartenbestimmung.' Document 115-0762-A3-5/
  222. (Institut fu"r Holzbiologie und Holzschutz: Hamburg.) (Includes German
  User's Guide for the DELTA System.)

Valdecasas, A. G.-, Elvira, J. R., Becerra, J. M., and Bello, E. (1990).
  `Dallwitz's DELTA: CONFOR, KEY, DIST, TRANSNTE.' (Museo Nacional de Ciencias
  Naturales: Madrid.) (Spanish User's Guide for the DELTA System.)

Wallace, C. C., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1981). `Key to Species of the Coral Genus
  Acropora from the Great Barrier Reef (Prototype).' 17pp. (James Cook
  University: Townsville.)

Wallace, C. C., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1981). Writing coral identification keys
  that work. In `Proceedings of the Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium,
  Manila, 1981', Vol. 2, pp. 187-190.

Watson, L. (1981). An automated system of generic descriptions for
  Caesalpinioideae, and its application to classification and key-making. In
  `Advances in Legume Systematics'. (Eds R. J. Polhill and P. H. Raven.) pp.
  65-80 + microfiche.

Watson, L. (1987). Automated descriptions of grass genera. In `Grass
  Systematics and Evolution'. (Eds T. R. Soderstrom, K. W. Hilu, C. S.
  Campbell, and M. E. Barkworth.) pp. 343-355. (Smithsonian Institution:
  Washington.)

Watson, L., Aiken, S. G., Dallwitz, M. J., Lefkovitch, L. P., and Dube', M.
  (1986). Canadian grass genera: keys and descriptions in English and French
  from an automated data bank. Can. J. Bot. 64, 53-70 + microfiche.

Watson, L., Clifford, H. T., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1985). The classification of
  the Poaceae: subfamilies and supertribes. Aust. J. Bot. 33, 433-484.

Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1981). An automated data bank for grass
  genera. Taxon 30, 424-429 + 2 microfiche.

Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1983). `Genera of
  Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae: Anatomy, Morphology, Classification and Keys.'
  95 pp. (Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National
  University: Canberra.)

Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1985). `Australian Grass Genera: Anatomy,
  Morphology, Keys and Classification.' 2nd edition. 165 pp. (Research School
  of Biological Sciences, Australian National University: Canberra.)

Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1988). `Grass Genera of the World:
  Illustrations of Characters, Classification, Interactive Identification,
  Information Retrieval.' With microfiches, and floppy disks for MS-DOS
  microcomputers. (Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National
  University: Canberra.)

Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1991a). Grass genera of the world: an INTKEY
  package for automated identification and information retrieval of data
  including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, cytology,
  classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references. 2nd
  edition. Flora Online 22.

Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1991b). The families of angiosperms: automated
  descriptions, with interactive identification and information retrieval.
  Aust. Syst. Bot. 4, 681-695.

Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1992). `The Grass Genera of the World.' 1038
  pp. (CAB International: Wallingford.)

Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1994). `The Families of Flowering Plants.'
  CD-ROM, Version 1.0 for MS-DOS. (CSIRO Publications: Melbourne.)

Watson, L., Dallwitz, M. J., Gibbs, A. J., and Pankhurst, R. J. (1988).
  Automated taxonomic descriptions. In `Prospects in Systematics', pp. 292-304.
  (Ed. D. L. Hawksworth.) (Clarendon Press: Oxford.)

Watson, L., Dallwitz, M. J. and Johnston, C. R. (1986). Grass genera of the
  world: 728 detailed descriptions from an automated database. Aust. J. Bot.
  34, 223-230.

Watson, L., Damanakis, M., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1988). `The Grass Genera of
  Greece: Descriptions, Classification, Keys.' In Greek. (University of Crete:
  Heraklion.)

Watson, L., Gibbs Russell, G. E., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1989). Grass genera of
  southern Africa: interactive identification and information retrieval from an
  automated data bank. S. Afr. J. Bot. 55, 452-463.

Webster, R. D. (1984). A revision of the genus Digitaria Haller (Paniceeae:
  Poaceae) in Australia. Brunonia 6, 131-124.

Webster, R. D. (1987). `The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae).' (J. Cramer: Berlin
  & Stuttgart.)

Webster, R. D. (1987). Taxonomy of Digitaria section Digitaria in North America
  (Poaceae: Paniceae). SIDA 12, 209-222.

Webster, R. D. (1988). Genera of the North American Paniceae (Poaceae:
  Panicoideae). Syst. Bot. 13, 576-609.

Webster, R. D., Kirkbride, J. H., and Reyna, J. V. (1989). New World genera of
  the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). SIDA 13, 393-417 + microfiche.

Webster, R. D., and Reyna, J. V. (1988). Genera of Mesoamerican Paniceae
  (Poaceae: Panicoideae). SIDA 13, 187-221.

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