PEET: Systematics and Monography of Araneoid Spiders

乔治华盛顿大学的Gustavo Hormiga教授和他在哈佛大学、加州科学院和史密森尼学会的同事们，在一个非常成功的分类学研究和培训PEET活动（“加强分类学专业知识的合作伙伴关系”）的项目中，寻求培训更多的系统生物学家（两名可能是博士生和一名博士后学者），对一个超级多样化的群体蜘蛛进行专题研究和修订研究。学员们将与pi和几位专家合作者密切合作，研究和描述织球科蛛科和蛛科的蜘蛛物种。主要目标是培训三名分类学专家，研究几个严重不足的主要是热带蜘蛛的群体。这些受训者将以系统的方法接受最先进的教育，并将与各种项目合作者以及学术和研究机构进行互动。他们的训练将使他们将来能够对任何蜘蛛分类组进行系统的研究。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。这项研究的分类学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议期刊上。此外，该项目的网站（www.gwu.edu/~spiders/）将作为宣传研究成果和传播这些成果的渠道，包括：交互式识别密钥、数字图库（用于辅助识别的世界属龙骨科和龙骨科的分类图像）、网络架构图像数据库（与标本凭证数据的文件超链接的图像）和专题分类群的地理参考材料的标本数据库。

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.