Collaborative Research: ARTS: Integrative Research and Training in Tropical Taxonomy

合作研究：ARTS：热带分类学综合研究和培训

• 批准号: 1623837
• 负责人: Robert Thacker
• 金额: $ 7.34万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-15 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1623837&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; ARTS; Integrative; Training

Taxonomy, the science of finding, describing and naming organisms, is vital to biological research and conservation of life's diversity. The on-going effort to survey, inventory, and preserve the ocean's biological diversity is threatened by a shortage of taxonomic expertise. Although focused on Caribbean biodiversity, the overarching goal of this project is to promote conservation of marine biodiversity around the world. This project will make it easier to correctly identify and document marine biodiversity, to detect invasive species, and to protect rare and endangered species by training new taxonomists, by developing Internet-based resources to support taxonomic research, and by making taxonomic methods easily accessible to non-specialists. This project will create new taxonomic descriptions and revisions of currently undescribed species from the Caribbean, which will be immediately useful to any researcher, manager, or conservation practitioner working in the region, and will contribute to the species inventory of the Caribbean. Open-access videos and how-to guides will allow specialists to convey enthusiasm for these organisms to the public, to managers, and to policy makers, and provide a way for students and the general public to learn more about taxonomy. This project has three parts with complementary aims. Part A will document the biodiversity of 6 groups of marine organisms with high, but poorly known, diversity in the Southern Caribbean (sponges, hydroids, sea anemones, sea squirts, ribbon worms, and seaweeds). This work will emphasize the integration of traditional morphological and molecular characters with non-traditional characters such as larval morphology, live coloration, and characters derived from confocal and electron microscopy. Established experts will work closely with experts-in-training, with a focus on species from the Caribbean coast of Panama that are known to be in particular need of taxonomic revision. Part B will provide training workshops for graduate students and junior researchers interested in developing taxonomic expertise in one of 6 focal groups; enabling them to (1) identify species in the field, (2) efficiently collect and preserve material for subsequent taxonomic work, (3) use existing keys or monographs to identify material to species, and (4) develop personal connections with a global network of other students and specialists. Part C will make the basic skills and vocabulary involved in the taxonomy of all 6 groups globally accessible to both expert and non-specialist workers in biodiversity and conservation. This part will develop a standard package of internet-based tools for each group, including a set of how-to videos and illustrated definitions of technical terms, with translations into several languages. This toolkit will be designed to facilitate rapid biodiversity documentation and to increase the precision of preliminary field identifications.

分类学是一门寻找、描述和命名生物体的科学，对于生物学研究和生命多样性保护至关重要。正在进行的调查、清查和保护海洋生物多样性的工作受到分类学专业知识短缺的威胁。尽管该项目的重点是加勒比生物多样性，但其总体目标是促进世界各地海洋生物多样性的保护。该项目将通过培训新的分类学家、开发基于互联网的资源来支持分类学研究以及使分类学方法更容易为人们所获取，从而使正确识别和记录海洋生物多样性、检测入侵物种以及保护稀有和濒危物种变得更加容易。非专家。 该项目将为加勒比地区目前未描述的物种创建新的分类学描述和修订，这对于在该地区工作的任何研究人员、管理人员或保护从业者将立即有用，并将为加勒比地区的物种清单做出贡献。开放获取视频和操作指南将使专家能够向公众、管理者和政策制定者传达对这些生物体的热情，并为学生和公众提供一种了解更多分类学的方法。该项目由三个部分组成，目标互补。 A 部分将记录南加勒比地区 6 类海洋生物（海绵、水螅、海葵、海鞘、带虫和海藻）的多样性，这些生物的多样性很高，但鲜为人知。这项工作将强调传统形态和分子特征与非传统特征的整合，例如幼虫形态、活体着色以及来自共焦和电子显微镜的特征。知名专家将与受训专家密切合作，重点关注巴拿马加勒比海岸已知特别需要分类学修订的物种。 B 部分将为有兴趣在 6 个焦点群体之一发展分类学专业知识的研究生和初级研究人员提供培训研讨会；使他们能够（1）在野外识别物种，（2）有效收集和保存后续分类工作所需的材料，（3）使用现有的密钥或专着来识别物种材料，以及（4）与全球网络建立个人联系其他学生和专家。 C 部分将使全球生物多样性和保护领域的专家和非专家工作者都能掌握所有 6 个类别分类所涉及的基本技能和词汇。这部分将为每个小组开发一个基于互联网的标准工具包，包括一组操作视频和技术术语的图解定义，并翻译成多种语言。该工具包旨在促进快速记录生物多样性并提高初步实地识别的准确性。

项目成果

New shallow water species of Caribbean Ircinia Nardo, 1833 (Porifera: Irciniidae)

加勒比海 Ircinia Nardo 浅水新种，1833 年（多孔菌门：Irciniidae）

• DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.4.1
• 发表时间: 2021-12
• 期刊: Zootaxa
• 影响因子: 0.9
• 作者: KELLY, JOSEPH B.;THACKER, ROBERT W.
• 通讯作者: THACKER, ROBERT W.

Novel trends of genome evolution in highly complex tropical sponge microbiomes

高度复杂的热带海绵微生物组中基因组进化的新趋势

• DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01359-z
• 发表时间: 2022-12
• 期刊: Microbiome
• 影响因子: 15.5
• 作者: Kelly, Joseph B.;Carlson, David E.;Low, Jun Siong;Thacker, Robert W.
• 通讯作者: Thacker, Robert W.

The Relationship Between Microbiomes and Selective Regimes in the Sponge Genus Ircinia

海绵属 Ircinia 微生物组与选择机制之间的关系

• DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.607289
• 发表时间: 2021-03
• 期刊: Frontiers in Microbiology
• 影响因子: 5.2
• 作者: Kelly, Joseph B.;Carlson, David E.;Low, Jun Siong;Rice, Tyler;Thacker, Robert W.
• 通讯作者: Thacker, Robert W.