PEET: Revision ofthe Cirolanidae (Crustaceae: Peracarida: Isopoda), with Monographs on Selected Genera and a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Family

小行星9521649 等足类甲壳动物是一个非常大的和多样化的无脊椎生物群体，需要系统的，专题的修订和培训更多的研究人员。 该奖项支持的两名研究人员研究了Cirolanidae（甲壳纲：Peracarida：Isopida），是美国唯一的系统专家。 他们与哥本哈根大学的一位欧洲工作者进行了合作，他是世界上唯一一位活跃在这个群体中的工作者。 他们将共同协调一个优秀的培训计划，从本科到博士后水平的学生参与。 预计将由实习生工作人员进行五次属级修订，他们与高级研究人员一起将进行系统发育分析和家族属级修订。 一名博士后实习生和三名研究生的研究和教育将得到支持，五名本科生将参与其中，并希望对系统生物学的研究和随后的研究生学习感兴趣。 所有研究工作的结果都将公布。 此外，还将开发研究成果的电子传播，包括数据矩阵、带有关键特征数字化图像的检索表以及书目、标本、物种一级和属一级的数据库，并通过因特网提供。 我们对等足类甲壳纲这个科的生物多样性的认识将得到显著提高。 新的年轻科学家将接受系统研究现代方法的培训。 这些信息将在许多其他领域的研究中发挥作用，这些研究涉及这组生物，其成员包括食腐动物，捕食者，甚至鱼类的寄生虫。

9521649 BRUSCA Isopod Crustacea are a very large and diverse group of invertebrate organisms that need both systematic, monographic revision and training of additional researchers. The two investigators being supported by this award work on the family Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopida) and are the only systematic specialists for this group in the United States. They have engaged the collaborative efforts of a European worker at the University of Copenhagen, who is the only other active worker on this group in the world. Together they will coordinate an excellent training program, engaging students from the undergraduate through postdoctoral level. It is anticipated that five generic revisions will be produced by student trainee workers and that they, collectively with the senior researchers will produce a phylogenetic analysis and generic level revision of family. The research and education of one postdoctoral trainee and three graduate students will be supported and five undergraduate students will be involved and, hopefully, become interested in research and subsequent graduate studies in Systematic Biology. Results of all research efforts will be published. In addition, electronic dissemination of the research results, including data matrices, keys with digitized images of key characters, and bibliographic, specimen, species-level and genus-level databases will be developed and made available tia Internet. Our knowledge of the biodiversity in this family of isopod crustacea will be markedly enhanced. New young scientists will be trained in modern methods of systematic research. And information will be made available that should be of utility in many other areas of research dealing with this group of organisms whose members include scavengers, predators, and even parasites of fish.