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

PEET：Ceramiales（红藻门）的专题研究和系统发育研究

• 批准号: 0328491
• 负责人: Suzanne Fredericq
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0328491&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PEET; Monographic; Research; Phylogenetic; Investigations

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.

增强分类学专业知识合作伙伴关系 (PEET) 计划的赠款已授予博士。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 和史密森学会的 James Norris，以满足分类学研究和培训的需求海洋环境中的主要藻类之一——红藻。红藻引起了人们极大的兴趣，因为它们在世界各地的一系列海洋栖息地中都很常见，而且数量丰富，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了解最少的类群之一，将构成分类学工作的核心。使用形态学和分子 DNA 序列数据的各种数据收集和数据分析协议，学生将接受收集、识别和专着陶瓷科物种的培训，以产生用于科分类的第一个现代合成，并编译信息在可通过万维网访问的数据库中，该数据库将物种描述与相关图像和出版物联系起来。该项目旨在确保新一代红藻科学家拥有经典分类要素和工具的背景，以在未来几十年内进一步了解红藻。 该项目将准确识别海洋环境中许多常见且重要的组成部分，并将用现代系统方法培训至少两名博士生、一名博士后研究员和四名本科生。这项研究将为大量其他藻类的进化提供一个预测性的概念框架，以及一个易于获取的识别来源。