PEET: Bivalves - Research, Training, Electronic Dissemination of Data

[9978119] BielerBivalvia （= Lamellibranchia, peleypoda）是一个生物多样性和化石多样性都很高的类群，具有巨大的经济价值。很少有生物学家专门研究双壳类的多样性，而最大的双壳类（在生态和经济上都是最重要的）仍然是最不为人所知的。在一个由世界各地的生物学家和实验室参与的联合项目中，菲尔德自然历史博物馆的软体动物系统学家r·比勒（R. Bieler）和美国自然历史博物馆的软体动物系统学家p·m·米克尔森（P. M. Mikkelsen）结合了他们的专业知识，培训了新一代的双壳类工作者，并显著推进了该群体的系统分类。这项研究将集中在海洋蛤科（Veneridae）上，这是一组双壳类动物，目前有500多种，是世界蛤类渔业的重要组成部分。该项目将培养研究生和博士后水平的学生，涉及范围广泛的方法和技术，从实地收集和比较解剖研究到DNA测序。其他教育工作将针对本科生学员和各种观众，这些观众可以通过网络出版物和博物馆节目来接触到。促进双壳类动物在世界范围内的研究是该项目的重要目标。为了使专家和非专业人士都能获得有关双壳类的信息和相关数据，我们将开发各种双壳类数据库、图像和密钥，以便在网上发布。

9978119 BielerBivalvia (= Lamellibranchia, Pelecypoda) is a group of great living and fossil diversity, and one of immense economic importance. There are few biologists specializing in investigating bivalve diversity and the largest (and ecologically as well as economically most important) bivalves have remained among the least understood. In a joint program involving biologists and laboratories from the around the world, R. Bieler, a molluscan systematist at the Field Museum of Natural History and P. M. Mikkelsen, a molluscan systematist at the American Museum of Natural History, combine their expertise to train a new generation of bivalve workers and significantly to advance the systematics of the group. The research will concentrate on the marine family Veneridae, a group of bivalves with more than 500 living species that form a key component in the world's clam fisheries. The project will train students at the graduate and postdoctoral levels and involves a wide range of approaches and techniques ranging from field collecting and comparative anatomical studies to DNA sequencing. Other educational efforts will target undergraduate trainees and various audiences that can be reached through web publications and museum programming. Promoting bivalve research worldwide is an important goal of this project. To make information about the species and associated data available to specialists and non-specialists alike, various bivalve databases, images, and keys will be developed for electronic web dissemination.