RPG: Phylogenetic Evaluation of Octopod Suborders

生活在近岸和公海海域的章鱼 生态多样，但分类学知之甚少。 物种和 属的区分通常是通过形态学的外部特征 很可能代表了捕食方式的趋同 博士 Voight将对手臂进行深入的组织学研究， 肌肉系统和消化道器官来描述这些系统， 详细说明，从而获得新的特征进行分类比较， 系统发育分析 特别强调的是手臂肌肉， 吸盘，食道，鳃，唾液腺和导管。 %%% 在一项研究计划中，博伊特博士将开始 的手臂肌肉和消化系统的组织学研究 世界上的章鱼 我们的目标是描述这些系统， 详细说明，从而获得新的分类特征， 识别物种和属，并最终推断 生态多样性群体之间的系统发育关系 近岸和远洋章鱼。

Octopuses of the near-shore and open-ocean marine realm are ecologically diverse but poorly known taxonomically. Species and genera are usually discriminated by external features of morphology that may well represent convergences in styles of predation. Dr. Voight will conduct intensive histological studies of arm musculature and digestive tract organs to describe these systems in detail and thus acquire new characters for taxonomic comparison and phylogenetic analysis. Special emphasis is placed on arm muscles, suckers, esophageal crop, gills, and salivary glands and ducts. %%% In a research planning grant Dr. Voight will begin intensive histological studies of the arm musculature and digestive system of octopuses of the world. The goal is to describe these systems in detail and thus acquire new taxonomic characters for the recognition of species and genera, and eventually for inferring phylogenetic relationships among the ecologically diverse groups of near-shore and open-ocean octopods.