PEET: Systematics and Monography of Araneoid Spiders

在PEET活动中，一个非常成功的分类学研究和培训计划的更新，增强分类学专业知识的伙伴关系，乔治华盛顿大学的Gustavo Hormiga教授和哈佛大学，加州科学院和史密森尼学会的同事寻求培训更多的系统生物学家（两个可能的博士学位）。学生和一名博士后学者）的专题和修订研究的一个巨大的多样性群体，蜘蛛。学员将与PI和几位专家合作，研究和描述圆织蜘蛛科和Mysmenidae的蜘蛛物种。主要目标是培养三名分类学专家，研究几个主要是热带蜘蛛的关键不足的群体。这些学员将接受系统方法的最新教育，并将与各种项目合作者和学术研究机构互动。他们的训练将使他们在未来能够对任何蜘蛛分类群进行系统研究。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利用计算机化和网络传播。本研究的专著和系统数据将发表在同行评审期刊上。 此外，项目网站（www.gwu.edu/spiders/）将作为宣传和传播研究成果的渠道，包括：交互式识别键，数字图像库（世界肖龙科和网蝽科属的分类图像，以协助识别），网结构图像数据库（图像超链接到一个文件与标本凭证数据），和标本数据库的地理参考材料的专题分类群。

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.