PEET: Bivalves - Research, Training, Electronic Dissemination of Data

9978119 BielerBivalvia（= Lamellibranchia，Pelecypoda）是一组巨大的生活和化石多样性，和一个巨大的经济重要性。 很少有生物学家专门研究双壳类的多样性，而最大的（在生态和经济上最重要的）双壳类仍然是最不了解的。 在一个由来自世界各地的生物学家和实验室参与的联合项目中，R。比勒是菲尔德自然历史博物馆的软体动物分类学家，Mikkelsen是美国自然历史博物馆的软体动物系统学家，他将他们的专业知识结合起来，训练新一代的双壳类工作者，并大大推进了该群体的系统学。 这项研究将集中在海洋家庭Veneridae，一组双壳类，有500多个活的物种，形成了世界蛤渔业的关键组成部分。 该项目将培训研究生和博士后水平的学生，涉及从实地收集和比较解剖学研究到DNA测序的广泛方法和技术。 其他教育工作将针对本科学员和各种观众，可以通过网络出版物和博物馆编程。 促进世界范围内的双壳类研究是该项目的一个重要目标。 为了使专家和非专家都能获得有关该物种的信息和相关数据，将开发各种双壳类数据库、图像和检索表，以供电子网络传播。

9978119 BielerBivalvia (= Lamellibranchia, Pelecypoda) is a group of great living and fossil diversity, and one of immense economic importance. There are few biologists specializing in investigating bivalve diversity and the largest (and ecologically as well as economically most important) bivalves have remained among the least understood. In a joint program involving biologists and laboratories from the around the world, R. Bieler, a molluscan systematist at the Field Museum of Natural History and P. M. Mikkelsen, a molluscan systematist at the American Museum of Natural History, combine their expertise to train a new generation of bivalve workers and significantly to advance the systematics of the group. The research will concentrate on the marine family Veneridae, a group of bivalves with more than 500 living species that form a key component in the world's clam fisheries. The project will train students at the graduate and postdoctoral levels and involves a wide range of approaches and techniques ranging from field collecting and comparative anatomical studies to DNA sequencing. Other educational efforts will target undergraduate trainees and various audiences that can be reached through web publications and museum programming. Promoting bivalve research worldwide is an important goal of this project. To make information about the species and associated data available to specialists and non-specialists alike, various bivalve databases, images, and keys will be developed for electronic web dissemination.