PEET: Inventory, Systemetics, and Phylogeny of Sea Anemones: Training of Modern Systematists and Electronic Dissemination of Data

9521819海葵是海洋生态系统的重要成员。它们出现在所有深度，从深海喷口到珊瑚礁，在某些条件下，它们可以取代或取代硬珊瑚。事实上，在后一种情况下对海葵的研究对于理解全球变化对珊瑚和珊瑚礁的影响很重要。福廷博士是世界上仅有的五位研究海葵的系统学家之一，她也是北美唯一的一位。她将通过培训一名硕士研究生、两名博士生和一名博士后研究员来纠正这种情况。将开发一个世界海葵数据库，其中包括物种的数字化图像和可供非系统学家以及系统研究人员使用的电子钥匙。形态和分子数据都将用于这些生物的专题处理。该奖项将支持对处理海葵的新的实践系统学家的培训。我们对海洋生物多样性这一被忽视因素的了解将显著增加，这一项目产生的信息将对研究海洋群落生态学、种群生物学、全球变化、生物地理学等的研究人员有用。了解这一群体物种之间的关系也具有潜在的经济价值，因为海葵一直是涉及药物(如麻醉剂)生物勘探的研究重点。

9521819 FAUTIN Sea anemones are important members of marine ecosystems. They occur at all depths, from deep-sea vents to coral reefs, where they can displace or replace hard corals under some conditions. In fact, studies of anemones in this latter context are important for understanding the effects of global change on corals and coral reefs. Dr. Fautin is one of only five systematists in the world dealing with sea anemones and she is the only one in North America. She will remedy this situation by training one MS student, two PhD students and a post-doctoral fellow. A database of anemones of the world will be developed, including digitized images of species and electronic keys that can be utilized by non-systematists as well as systematic researchers. Both morphological and molecular data will be utilized in the monographic treatment of these organisms. This award will support the training of new practicing systematists dealing with sea anemones. Our knowledge of this neglected element of marine biodiversity will be markedly increased and the information resulting from this project should be of use to researchers studying marine community ecology, population biology, global change, biogeography, etc.. Knowledge of relationships among species for this group has potential economic value as well, since sea anemones have been a focus of research involving bioprospecting for pharmaceuticals, such as anesthetics.