DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Molecular Phylogeny of Coleoid Cephalopods

小行星9623353 该奖项将提供材料和用品的资金，以加强研究生大卫B的论文研究。Carlini与John E.弗吉尼亚海洋科学研究所的格雷夫斯。 该学生的研究项目涉及获得两个基因的DNA序列数据，一个核基因和一个线粒体基因，以确定鞘翅目亚纲中头足类软体动物之间的更高层次的关系。 这种迷人的海洋无脊椎动物包括鱿鱼和它们的亲戚。 这一组包括许多不易获得的深海物种。 因此，这一群体相对被忽视，需要进行系统研究和健全的分类。 这种分子系统发育研究应该提供的关系，这可以作为其他有趣的研究，包括地理学，生殖策略，形态适应等的基础上的分类或假设。 该奖项将为研究生提供有关鱿鱼及其亲属关系的信息的支持。 支持对研究生进行现代系统方法方面的培训，对于维持一支能够处理日益引起全球关注的生物多样性问题的科学工作队伍十分重要。 这一组海洋无脊椎动物，像许多其他动物一样，需要系统的研究，这将为许多其他领域的基础研究提供必要的背景，并为保护研究和生物勘探工作等应用工作提供信息。

9623353 GRAVES This award will provide funds for materials and supplies to enhance the dissertation research of a graduate student, David B. Carlini, working with Dr. John E. Graves at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. The research project of this student involves obtaining DNA sequence data for two genes, one nuclear and one mitochondrial, in efforts to determine the higher level relationships among cephalopod molluscs in the subclass Coleoidea. This fascinating group of marine invertebrates includes squid and their relatives. The group includes many deep sea species that are not readily obtainable. Thus, the group has been relatively neglected and is in need of systematic study and a robust classification. This molecular phylogenetic study should provide that classification or hypothesis of relationships, which can then serve as a basis for other interesting research studies involving biogeography, reproductive strategies, morphological adaptations, etc.. This award will provide support for a graduate student pursuing information about relationships of squid and their relatives. Support for the training of graduate students in modern systematic methodologies is important for maintaining the workforce of scientists capable of addressing the questions and issues of biodiversity which are of increasing global concern. This group of marine invertebrates, like many others, is in need of systematic study which will provide the background necessary for many other areas of basic research as well as informing applied work such as conservation research and bioprospecting efforts.