PurSUiT: Diversity and endemism across a steep biogeographic cline: marine invertebrates of Oman

追求：陡峭的生物地理斜坡的多样性和特有性：阿曼的海洋无脊椎动物

• 批准号: 1856245
• 负责人: Gustav Paulay
• 金额: $ 81.91万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1856245&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PurSUiT; Diversity; endemism; across; steep

Among coral reefs of the world, few are as diverse, poorly known, environmentally variable, and threatened by global climate change as those of the Indo-West Pacific marine region near Oman. Reef communities in this region survive or thrive across extremes of temperatures, salinities, pH, and oxygen, and thus offer a glimpse of biological adaptations to future global ocean conditions. This study will document the diversity of marine invertebrate animals in reefs near Oman as part of a large-scale survey utilizing an integrated set of collecting, imaging, genetic, and informatics tools. Researchers will focus on the discovery, description and analysis of understudied invertebrate phyla, which will include a high proportion of species new to science or endemic to waters around the Arabian Peninsula. Graduate and undergraduate students will be trained in the systematics and biogeography of selected groups and will develop a range of skills including field and genomic techniques. Researchers will create a training workshop, a graduate course, and a massive open online course to educate the next generation about biodiversity survey methods of poorly sampled marine environments. Outreach and educational initiatives will leverage institutional capacities at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, and California Academy of Sciences to engage diverse public audiences in understanding the value of threatened coral reef environments. Researchers will survey marine invertebrate phyla within coastal reef habitats of the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian/Persian Gulf using targeted and broad-spectrum methods. Researchers will further document diversity through community DNA sequencing of plankton, benthic assemblages, and recruited biota on autonomous reef monitoring structures. Approximately 20,000 lots of specimens will be preserved for study in museum collections, imaged, and sequenced, and distributed to a network of collaborating taxonomists for analysis. An estimated 3000 species will be fully characterized as a consequence. Researchers will describe new species where warranted and will assess the relative roles of relictualism, basinal isolation, ecological speciation, and long-distance colonization as sources of diversity, endemism, and evolutionary novelty in the Arabian Peninsula reef communities. These data, which will be shared in public repositories, will provide baseline information regarding marine biodiversity for monitoring purposes and for comparison to other areas of the Indo-West Pacific marine region.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在世界珊瑚礁中，很少有珊瑚礁像阿曼附近的印度-西太平洋海洋区域那样多样化、鲜为人知、环境多变、受到全球气候变化的威胁。该地区的珊瑚礁群落在极端的温度、盐度、酸碱度和氧气条件下生存或繁衍，因此提供了一个对未来全球海洋条件的生物适应的一瞥。这项研究将记录阿曼附近珊瑚礁中海洋无脊椎动物的多样性，作为利用一套综合的收集、成像、遗传和信息学工具进行大规模调查的一部分。研究人员将专注于发现、描述和分析研究不足的无脊椎动物门，其中将包括很高比例的科学新物种或阿拉伯半岛周围水域特有的物种。研究生和本科生将接受选定群体的系统学和生物地理学方面的培训，并将发展包括实地和基因组技术在内的一系列技能。研究人员将创建一个培训研讨会、一个研究生课程和一个大规模的开放在线课程，以教育下一代关于采样不足的海洋环境的生物多样性调查方法。推广和教育活动将利用佛罗里达自然历史博物馆、史密森学会和加州科学院的机构能力，让不同的公众受众了解受威胁的珊瑚礁环境的价值。研究人员将使用有针对性和广谱的方法调查阿拉伯海、阿曼湾和阿拉伯/波斯湾沿海珊瑚礁栖息地的海洋无脊椎动物门。研究人员将通过对浮游生物、海底生物组合和自主珊瑚礁监测结构上招募的生物群进行群落DNA测序，进一步证明多样性。大约20,000批标本将被保存在博物馆收藏品中进行研究，对其进行成像和测序，并分发给合作分类学家网络进行分析。因此，估计将有3000个物种得到充分描述。研究人员将在有必要的情况下描述新物种，并将评估遗迹主义、盆地隔离、生态物种形成和远程殖民作为阿拉伯半岛珊瑚礁群落多样性、地方性和进化新颖性的来源所起的相对作用。这些数据将在公共储存库中共享，将提供关于海洋生物多样性的基线信息，用于监测目的并与印度-西太平洋海洋区域的其他区域进行比较。这一裁决反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Two new species and a new record of Bopyrinae (Isopoda: Bopyridae) infesting Alpheidae and Hippolytidae, with comments on the genus Bopyrina Kossmann, 1881.

侵染 Alpheidae 和 Hippolytidae 的 Bopyrinae（等足目：Bopyridae）的两个新种和新记录，以及对 Bopyrina Kossmann 属的评论，1881 年。

• DOI: 10.1007/s11230-021-09968-2
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Systematic parasitology
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: An, J.;Xi, Q.;Paulay, G.
• 通讯作者: Paulay, G.

On some encrusting Xeniidae (Octocorallia): Re-examination of the type material of Sansibia flava (May, 1898) and a description of new taxa

关于一些有壳的 Xeniidae (Octocorallia)：对 Sansibia flava 模式材料的重新审查（1898 年 5 月）和新类群的描述

• DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.4.3
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Zootaxa
• 影响因子: 0.9
• 作者: BENAYAHU, YEHUDA;EKINS, MERRICK;OFWEGEN, LEEN P.;SAMIMI-NAMIN, KAVEH;MCFADDEN, CATHERINE S.
• 通讯作者: MCFADDEN, CATHERINE S.