PEET: Monography of the Diphyllidea, Lecanicephalidea, and Tetraphyllidea: A Program to Train the Cestodologists of the Future

小行星9521943 绦虫是造成地球仪上人类痛苦的罪魁祸首，也是宠物和家畜经济损失的罪魁祸首，同时也是众多脊椎动物野生种群的罪魁祸首。 但是它们的栖息地，在其他动物的器官深处，它们作为寄生虫生活，可能导致了对这些动物的生物多样性的普遍视而不见的态度。 虽然对主要寄生害虫的几个物种的生物学有相当多的了解，但对这类扁形虫的一般系统知识还没有很好的发展。 研究这些寄生虫的少数系统专家包括接近退休的个人，并且主要需要培训绦虫总科（绦虫）的新系统工作者。 该奖项将支持三名博士生的培训和研究，并将介绍几名本科生进行这些动物的系统学研究。 14个目中的3个将在物种水平上接受专题治疗;这些努力的数据库将被开发并以电子方式提供给广大的研究人员。 这项研究奖的结果将有助于我们对绦虫生物多样性的了解，并培养新的实践系统学家，他们可以对这些寄生虫及其亲属进行进一步的研究。 本研究所产生的系统专著将在涉及这些寄生虫的种群生物学、生态学、昆虫地理学、共同进化研究等基础生物学研究中具有价值，此外还具有明显的可能的人类健康和家畜健康的经济适用性。

9521943 CAIRA Tapeworms are responsible for human suffering around the globe, economic costs for our pets and domestic animals, and fluxes in numerous vertebrate wild animal populations. But their habitat, deep in the organs of other animals where they live as parasites, may have led to a general out-of-sight-out-of-mind attitude toward the biological diversity of these animals. While a fair amount is known about the biology of a few species that are major parasitic pests, general systematic knowledge for this class of flatworms is not well developed. The few systematic specialists who do study these parasites include individuals nearing retirement and there is a major need for training of new systematic workers in Cestoidea, the tapeworms. This award will support the training and research of three PhD students and several undergraduates will be introduced to research in the systematics of these animals. Three of fourteen of orders will receive monographic treatment to the species level; databases of these efforts will be developed and made available electronically to a wide community of researchers. The results of this research award will contribute to our knowledge of the biodiversity of tapeworms and train new practicing systematists who can carry on further research with these parasites and their relatives. The systematic monographs resulting from this research will be of value in basic biological research involving the population biology, ecology, biogeography, coevolutionary studies, etc. of these parasites, in addition to obvious possible economic applicability with human health and the health of domestic animals.