Robert Evan Mesibov
BornMarch 1946 (age 77)
NationalityAustralian (1976-
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (Ph.D)
New York University (B.A.)
Known forMillipede taxonomy
Scientific career
FieldsDiplopodology
InstitutionsQueen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

Robert 'Bob' Evan Mesibov (born 9 March 1946)[1] is an American born and educated Australian myriapod specialist. He earned a B.A. from New York University in 1966[1] and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971.[1]

He migrated to Australia in 1973, settling in Tasmania where he became a curatorial assistant at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery[1] in Launceston. He became an Australian citizen in 1976.[1]

Work

His earliest publications were in the field of chemotaxis,[2][3][4] but in 1990–1991, while working as a forest ecology and zoology consultant, he published his first zoological papers, on velvet worms in the family Peripatopsidae).[5][6][7]

In later life he has become increasingly concerned with problems in digital databases, from concerns about inconsistencies and errors in aggregated databases,[8][9] to problems with specimens' GPS coordinates.[10]

His zoological author abbreviation is Mesibov.[11] He has authored over a hundred taxa.

See also

  • Taxa named by Robert Mesibov

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mesibov info and science publications". www.datafix.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
  2. ↑ Mesibov R; Ordal GW; Adler J (1 August 1973). "The range of attractant concentrations for bacterial chemotaxis and the threshold and size of response over this range. Weber law and related phenomena". The Journal of General Physiology. 62 (2): 203–223. doi:10.1085/JGP.62.2.203. ISSN 0022-1295. PMC 2226111. PMID 4578974. Wikidata Q36428828.
  3. ↑ Hazelbauer GL; Mesibov RE; Adler J (1 December 1969). "Escherichia coli mutants defective in chemotaxis toward specific chemicals". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 64 (4): 1300–1307. Bibcode:1969PNAS...64.1300H. doi:10.1073/PNAS.64.4.1300. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 223283. PMID 4916925. Wikidata Q36442751.
  4. ↑ Mesibov R; J. Adler (1 October 1972). "Chemotaxis toward amino acids in Escherichia coli". Journal of Bacteriology. 112 (1): 315–326. doi:10.1128/JB.112.1.315-326.1972. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 251414. PMID 4562400. Wikidata Q36834145.
  5. ↑ Robert Mesibov (1990). "Velvet worms: a special case of invertebrate conservation". Tasforests. 2: 53–56. ISSN 1033-8306. Wikidata Q118985009.
  6. ↑ R. Mesibov; H. Ruhberg (1991). "Ecology and conservation of Tasmanipatus barretti and T. anophthalmus, parapatric onychophorans (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) from northeastern Tasmania" (PDF). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 125: 11–16. ISSN 0080-4703. Wikidata Q118985079.
  7. ↑ Hilke Ruhberg; Robert Mesibov; D.A. Briscoe; N.N. Tait (1991). "Tasmanipatus barretti gen. nov., and T. anophthalmus, sp. nov.: two new and unusual Onychophorans (Onychophora : Peripatopsidae) from northeastern Tasmania" (PDF). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 125: 7–10. ISSN 0080-4703. Wikidata Q118793339.
  8. ↑ Robert Mesibov (15 June 2018). ""Look what they've done to our data!" — How Aggregators Change Data Items in Collection Records". Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 2: e25906. doi:10.3897/BISS.2.25906. ISSN 2535-0897. Wikidata Q114575549.
  9. ↑ Lyubomir Penev; Teodor Georgiev; Mariya Dimitrova; Yasen Mutafchiev; Pavel Stoev; Robert Mesibov (13 June 2019). "Data Auditing, Cleaning and Quality Assurance Workflows from the Experience of a Scholarly Publisher". Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3. doi:10.3897/BISS.3.35019. ISSN 2535-0897. Wikidata Q114575490.
  10. ↑ Robert Mesibov (30 November 2012). "Known unknowns, Google Earth, plate tectonics and Mt Bellenden Ker: some thoughts on locality data". ZooKeys. 247 (247): 61–7. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.247.4195. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3520140. PMID 23275756. Wikidata Q22678679.
  11. ↑ "Species Australeuma gladifer Shear & Mesibov, 1997". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
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