PEET: Monographic Research and Phylogenetic Investigations of the Ceramiales (Rhodophyta)

PEET：Ceramiales（红藻门）的专题研究和系统发育研究

• 批准号: 0328491
• 负责人: Suzanne Fredericq
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0328491&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PEET; Monographic; Research; Phylogenetic; Investigations

A grant in the Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET) program has been awarded to Drs. Suzanne Fredericq of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Max Hommersand of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Freshwater of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and James Norris of the Smithsonian Institution, to address the need for taxonomic research and training on one of the dominant algal groups in the marine environment, the red algae. Red algae are of great interest because they are common to abundant in a range of marine habitats worldwide, including rocky shores, coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangroves; they are major primary producers, providing food and shelter for a great number of invertebrates and herbivorous fish. The Order Ceramiales, one of the most diversity-rich but least understood groups of marine red algae, will form the core of taxonomic work. Using various data-gathering and data-analyzing protocols for morphological and molecular DNA sequence data, students will be trained in collecting, identifying and monographing species in the Ceramiaceae to produce the first modern synthesis for the classification of the family, and to compile the information in a Worldwide Web-accessible database that will connect species descriptions with images and publications related to them. This project is designed to ensure that there will be a new generation of red algal scientists with a background in both the classical elements of classification and the tools to further our understanding of the red algae in the next decades. This project will make many common and important components of marine environments accurately identifiable and will train at least two doctoral students, one postdoctoral fellow and four undergraduate students in modern systematic methods. This research will provide a predictive, conceptual framework for the evolution of a large number of other algal groups, as well as an easily accessible source for identification.

路易斯安那大学拉斐特分校的Suzanne Fredericq博士、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的Max Hommerand博士、北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校的Wilson Freshwater博士和史密森学会的James Norris获得了加强分类学专业知识(PEET)计划的赠款，以满足对海洋环境中主要藻类之一红藻的分类研究和培训的需求。人们对红藻非常感兴趣，因为它们普遍存在于世界各地的一系列海洋生境中，包括岩石海岸、珊瑚礁、海草床和红树林；它们是主要的初级生产者，为大量无脊椎动物和草食性鱼类提供食物和庇护所。Ceramiales目是多样性最丰富但最不为人所知的海洋红藻类群之一，将构成分类工作的核心。利用形态和分子DNA序列数据的各种数据收集和数据分析协议，将培训学生收集、鉴定和专著鹿科物种，以产生第一份用于该科分类的现代综合材料，并将信息汇编到一个万维网可访问的数据库中，该数据库将把物种描述与与它们相关的图像和出版物连接起来。这个项目旨在确保在未来几十年里，将会有新一代红藻科学家，他们在经典分类元素和工具方面都有背景，以加深我们对红藻的理解。该项目将使海洋环境的许多常见和重要组成部分得到准确识别，并将培训至少两名博士生、一名博士后研究员和四名本科生使用现代系统方法。这项研究将为大量其他藻类的进化提供一个预测性的概念性框架，以及一个易于获取的鉴定来源。