PEET: Systematics of Chewing Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera): World Checklist and Monographic Revision of the Goniodidae

犹他大学普莱斯研究所和伊利诺伊州自然历史调查局的合作研究和培训活动将产生半个世纪以来第一个全面的世界口虱目录，对口虱科进行专题修订，并培训具有口虱分类专业知识的新一代科学家。深入的实地研究将为项目中的学生带来许多新的材料和重要的经验。形态和分子数据将被整合起来，以假设冈鱼科的系统发育，并支持该科的多作者专著。由于它们可作为种群生物学、寄生适应、寄主选择和共生物种形成的模型，以及它们在医学和兽医上的重要性，咀嚼虱子引起了人们的极大兴趣。鲜有研究咀嚼虱子的在世专家。该项目将直接帮助培训一名博士后研究员和三名博士后学生，他们将参与研究的所有方面，从实地工作到分类学修订和专著。其中的结果将是网络上可访问的世界咀嚼虱子目录，以及第一本关于咀嚼虱子大家族的现代系统发育专著。

Collaborative research and training activities at the University of Utah's Price Institute for Phthirapteran Research and the Illinois Natural History Survey will result in the first comprehensive world catalog of chewing lice in half a century, a monographic revision of the family Goniodidae, and training a new generation of scientists with expertise in the taxonomy of chewing lice. Intensive field research will result in much new material and in important experiences for students in the project. Morphological and molecular data will be integrated to hypothesize a phylogeny for Goniodidae, and support the multi-authored monograph of the family. Chewing lice of are great interest because of their accessibility as models for population biology, parasitic adaptation, host selection, and co-speciation and because of their medical and veterinary importance. There are few living experts on chewing lice. This project will contribute directly to the training of one postdoctoral researcher and three doctoral students who will be involved in all aspects of the research from field work to taxonomic revisions and monography. Among the results will be web accessibility to a world catalog of chewing lice and the first modern, phylogenetic monograph of a large, important family of chewing lice.