PEET: Systematics and Monography of Araneoid Spiders

乔治·华盛顿大学的古斯塔沃·霍米加教授和哈佛大学、加州科学院和史密森学会的同事们试图培训更多的系统生物学家(两名可能的博士生和一名博士后学者)，对蜘蛛进行专题和修正性研究，这是在Peet活动中非常成功的分类研究和培训计划的更新。受训者将与PIS和几位专家合作者密切合作，研究和描述圆球编织科Tetragnathidae和Mysmenidae中的蜘蛛物种。主要目标是在几个研究严重不足的主要是热带蜘蛛群体中培训三名分类学专家。这些受训人员将接受系统方法的最新教育，并将与不同的项目合作者以及学术和研究机构互动。他们的训练将使他们能够在未来对任何蜘蛛分类群体进行系统研究。这些项目的系统发育部分将使用来自形态、行为和DNA序列的特征证据。这项研究的分类方面将广泛使用计算机化和基于网络的传播。这项研究产生的专著和系统数据将发表在同行评议的期刊上。此外，该项目的网址(www.gwu.edu/~spiders/)将成为宣传和传播研究成果的一个渠道，其中包括：交互式识别检索库、数字图像库(用于协助鉴定的世界蝗科和粘虫科属的分类图像)、网络建筑图像数据库(图像与标本凭证数据链接到一个文件)，以及专著分类群的地理参考材料的specimen数据库。

In a renewal of a highly successful program of taxonomic research and training in the PEET activity, Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy, Prof Gustavo Hormiga at George Washington University and colleagues at Harvard University, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Smithsonian seek to train additional systematic biologists (two likely Ph.D. students and one postdoctoral scholar) in monographic and revisionary study of a megadiverse group, spiders. The trainees, working in close collaboration with the PIs and several expert collaborators, will study and describe spider species in the orb weaving families Tetragnathidae and Mysmenidae. The main goal is to train three taxonomic experts in several critically understudied groups of mostly tropical spiders. These trainees will receive state of the art education in systematic methods and will interact with a diversity of project collaborators and academic and research institutions. Their training will allow them in the future to carry out systematic research on any taxonomic group of spiders. The phylogenetic component of these projects will use character evidence from morphology, behavior and DNA sequences. The taxonomic aspects of this research will make extensive use of computerization and web-based dissemination. The monographs and systematic data resulting from this research will be published in peer reviewed journals. In addition, the project web site (www.gwu.edu/~spiders/) will serve as an outlet to advertise research results and to disseminate these, including: Interactive identification keys, Digital Image Banks (of taxonomic images of the world genera of Tetragnathidae and Mysmenidae to assist with identification), Database of images of web architecture (with images hyperlinked to a file with the specimen voucher data), and Specimendatabases of geo-referenced material for the monographed taxa.