PEET: Systematics of Chewing Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera): World Checklist and Monographic Revision of the Goniodidae

犹他大学普赖斯Phthirapteran研究所和伊利诺斯州自然历史调查中心的合作研究和培训活动将产生半个世纪以来第一个全面的咀嚼虱世界目录，一个关于咀嚼虱科的专题修订，并培训新一代具有咀嚼虱分类学专业知识的科学家。深入的实地调研将为参与项目的学生带来许多新材料和重要经验。形态学和分子数据将被整合，以假设一个Goniodidae系统发育，并支持该家族的多作者专著。咀嚼虱之所以引起人们极大的兴趣，是因为它们可作为种群生物学、寄生虫适应、宿主选择和共物种形成的模型，而且它们在医学和兽医方面具有重要意义。很少有活着的专家研究咀嚼虱子。该项目将直接培养一名博士后研究员和三名博士生，他们将参与从实地工作到分类学修订和专著的各个方面的研究。其中的结果将是网络可访问的咀嚼虱子的世界目录和第一个现代，系统发育专著的一个大的，重要的家庭咀嚼虱子。

Collaborative research and training activities at the University of Utah's Price Institute for Phthirapteran Research and the Illinois Natural History Survey will result in the first comprehensive world catalog of chewing lice in half a century, a monographic revision of the family Goniodidae, and training a new generation of scientists with expertise in the taxonomy of chewing lice. Intensive field research will result in much new material and in important experiences for students in the project. Morphological and molecular data will be integrated to hypothesize a phylogeny for Goniodidae, and support the multi-authored monograph of the family. Chewing lice of are great interest because of their accessibility as models for population biology, parasitic adaptation, host selection, and co-speciation and because of their medical and veterinary importance. There are few living experts on chewing lice. This project will contribute directly to the training of one postdoctoral researcher and three doctoral students who will be involved in all aspects of the research from field work to taxonomic revisions and monography. Among the results will be web accessibility to a world catalog of chewing lice and the first modern, phylogenetic monograph of a large, important family of chewing lice.