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

PEET：海葵的清查、系统学和系统发育：现代系统学家的培训和数据的电子传播

• 批准号: 9521819
• 负责人: Daphne Fautin
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-15 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9521819&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PEET; Inventory; Systemetics; Phylogeny; Sea

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.

9521819 FAUTIN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非常重要。Fautin博士是世界上仅有的五位研究海葵的系统学家之一，也是北美唯一的一位。她将通过培养一名硕士生、两名博士生和一名博士后来解决这一问题。将开发世界海葵数据库，包括物种的数字化图像和电子钥匙，供非系统学家和系统研究人员使用。形态学和分子数据都将用于这些生物的专题处理。该奖项将支持培训新的海葵实践系统学家。我们对这一被忽视的海洋生物多样性元素的认识将显著增加，该项目所产生的信息将用于研究海洋群落生态学，种群生物学，全球变化，生物地理学等。了解这一群体的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生物勘探的研究重点，例如麻醉剂。