PEET: Monographic Research and Phylogenetic Investigations of the Ceramiales (Rhodophyta)

加强分类学专业知识伙伴关系（PEET）计划的一项赠款已授予博士。路易斯安那大学拉斐特分校的Suzanne Fredericq，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的Max Hommersand，北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校的Wilson Freshwater，以及史密森学会的James Norris，共同探讨了对海洋环境中主要藻类之一——红藻进行分类研究和培训的必要性。红藻引起人们极大的兴趣，因为它们在世界范围内的一系列海洋栖息地中都很常见，包括岩石海岸、珊瑚礁、海草床和红树林；它们是主要的初级生产者，为大量无脊椎动物和草食性鱼类提供食物和住所。陶瓷目是海洋红藻中多样性最丰富但最不为人所知的一类，它将成为分类学工作的核心。利用形态学和分子DNA序列数据的各种数据收集和数据分析协议，学生将接受训练，收集、鉴定和专著陶瓷科的物种，以产生该家族分类的第一个现代合成，并将信息汇编在一个全球可访问的数据库中，该数据库将物种描述与图像和相关出版物联系起来。这个项目的目的是确保新一代的红藻科学家在分类的经典元素和工具的背景下，以进一步了解红藻在未来几十年。本项目将对海洋环境的许多常见和重要组成部分进行准确识别，培养至少2名博士生、1名博士后和4名本科生用现代系统方法进行研究。这项研究将为大量其他藻类群体的进化提供一个预测性的、概念性的框架，以及一个容易获得的识别来源。

A grant in the Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET) program has been awarded to Drs. Suzanne Fredericq of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Max Hommersand of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Freshwater of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and James Norris of the Smithsonian Institution, to address the need for taxonomic research and training on one of the dominant algal groups in the marine environment, the red algae. Red algae are of great interest because they are common to abundant in a range of marine habitats worldwide, including rocky shores, coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangroves; they are major primary producers, providing food and shelter for a great number of invertebrates and herbivorous fish. The Order Ceramiales, one of the most diversity-rich but least understood groups of marine red algae, will form the core of taxonomic work. Using various data-gathering and data-analyzing protocols for morphological and molecular DNA sequence data, students will be trained in collecting, identifying and monographing species in the Ceramiaceae to produce the first modern synthesis for the classification of the family, and to compile the information in a Worldwide Web-accessible database that will connect species descriptions with images and publications related to them. This project is designed to ensure that there will be a new generation of red algal scientists with a background in both the classical elements of classification and the tools to further our understanding of the red algae in the next decades. This project will make many common and important components of marine environments accurately identifiable and will train at least two doctoral students, one postdoctoral fellow and four undergraduate students in modern systematic methods. This research will provide a predictive, conceptual framework for the evolution of a large number of other algal groups, as well as an easily accessible source for identification.