PEET: Monography of the Diphyllidea, Lecanicephalidea, and Tetraphyllidea: A Program to Train the Cestodologists of the Future

9521943凯纳绦虫造成了全球各地的人类苦难，我们的宠物和家畜的经济成本，以及无数脊椎动物野生动物种群的传播。但它们的栖息地位于它们作为寄生虫生活的其他动物的器官深处，这可能导致了人们对这些动物的生物多样性普遍持一种视而不见、不闻不问的态度。虽然对几种主要寄生害虫的生物学有相当多的了解，但对这类扁虫的一般系统知识还不是很发达。为数不多的研究这些寄生虫的系统专家包括即将退休的人，而且主要需要培训新的系统工作者来研究绦虫。该奖项将支持三名博士生的培训和研究，并将引进几名本科生从事这些动物的系统学研究。14个目中的3个将得到物种一级的专题处理；将开发这些努力的数据库，并以电子方式向广泛的研究人员提供。这一研究奖项的结果将有助于我们了解绦虫的生物多样性，并培养新的实践系统学家，他们可以对这些寄生虫及其近亲进行进一步的研究。这项研究产生的系统专著将在涉及这些寄生虫的种群生物学、生态学、生物地理学、共同进化研究等基础生物学研究中具有价值，此外还可能对人类健康和家畜健康具有明显的经济适用性。

9521943 CAIRA Tapeworms are responsible for human suffering around the globe, economic costs for our pets and domestic animals, and fluxes in numerous vertebrate wild animal populations. But their habitat, deep in the organs of other animals where they live as parasites, may have led to a general out-of-sight-out-of-mind attitude toward the biological diversity of these animals. While a fair amount is known about the biology of a few species that are major parasitic pests, general systematic knowledge for this class of flatworms is not well developed. The few systematic specialists who do study these parasites include individuals nearing retirement and there is a major need for training of new systematic workers in Cestoidea, the tapeworms. This award will support the training and research of three PhD students and several undergraduates will be introduced to research in the systematics of these animals. Three of fourteen of orders will receive monographic treatment to the species level; databases of these efforts will be developed and made available electronically to a wide community of researchers. The results of this research award will contribute to our knowledge of the biodiversity of tapeworms and train new practicing systematists who can carry on further research with these parasites and their relatives. The systematic monographs resulting from this research will be of value in basic biological research involving the population biology, ecology, biogeography, coevolutionary studies, etc. of these parasites, in addition to obvious possible economic applicability with human health and the health of domestic animals.