PurSUiT: Diversity and endemism across a steep biogeographic cline: marine invertebrates of Oman

追求：陡峭的生物地理斜坡的多样性和特有性：阿曼的海洋无脊椎动物

• 批准号: 1856245
• 负责人: Gustav Paulay
• 金额: $ 81.91万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1856245&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PurSUiT; Diversity; endemism; across; steep

Among coral reefs of the world, few are as diverse, poorly known, environmentally variable, and threatened by global climate change as those of the Indo-West Pacific marine region near Oman. Reef communities in this region survive or thrive across extremes of temperatures, salinities, pH, and oxygen, and thus offer a glimpse of biological adaptations to future global ocean conditions. This study will document the diversity of marine invertebrate animals in reefs near Oman as part of a large-scale survey utilizing an integrated set of collecting, imaging, genetic, and informatics tools. Researchers will focus on the discovery, description and analysis of understudied invertebrate phyla, which will include a high proportion of species new to science or endemic to waters around the Arabian Peninsula. Graduate and undergraduate students will be trained in the systematics and biogeography of selected groups and will develop a range of skills including field and genomic techniques. Researchers will create a training workshop, a graduate course, and a massive open online course to educate the next generation about biodiversity survey methods of poorly sampled marine environments. Outreach and educational initiatives will leverage institutional capacities at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, and California Academy of Sciences to engage diverse public audiences in understanding the value of threatened coral reef environments. Researchers will survey marine invertebrate phyla within coastal reef habitats of the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian/Persian Gulf using targeted and broad-spectrum methods. Researchers will further document diversity through community DNA sequencing of plankton, benthic assemblages, and recruited biota on autonomous reef monitoring structures. Approximately 20,000 lots of specimens will be preserved for study in museum collections, imaged, and sequenced, and distributed to a network of collaborating taxonomists for analysis. An estimated 3000 species will be fully characterized as a consequence. Researchers will describe new species where warranted and will assess the relative roles of relictualism, basinal isolation, ecological speciation, and long-distance colonization as sources of diversity, endemism, and evolutionary novelty in the Arabian Peninsula reef communities. These data, which will be shared in public repositories, will provide baseline information regarding marine biodiversity for monitoring purposes and for comparison to other areas of the Indo-West Pacific marine region.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在世界的珊瑚礁中，很少有像阿曼附近的印度西太平洋海洋地区那样多样化，众所周知，环境变化和受到全球气候变化的威胁。该地区的珊瑚礁群落在极端的温度，盐度，pH和氧气中生存或繁衍生息，从而瞥见了对未来全球海洋状况的生物学适应。这项研究将记录阿曼附近礁石中海洋无脊椎动物的多样性，这是利用一组集成的收集，成像，遗传和信息学工具的大规模调查的一部分。研究人员将重点关注对无脊椎动物门的发现，描述和分析，其中包括大部分科学的物种或阿拉伯半岛周围水域的特有物种。研究生和本科生将接受选定群体的系统和生物地理学培训，并将发展一系列技能，包括现场和基因组技术。研究人员将创建一个培训研讨会，研究生课程和大规模开放的在线课程，以教育下一代有关采样较差的海洋环境的生物多样性调查方法。宣传和教育计划将利用佛罗里达自然历史博物馆，史密森尼和加利福尼亚科学学院的机构能力来吸引多样化的公众观众了解受威胁的珊瑚礁环境的价值。研究人员将使用针对性和广谱方法调查阿拉伯海，阿曼湾和阿拉伯/波斯湾沿海珊瑚礁栖息地内海洋无脊椎动物门。研究人员将通过浮游生物的社区DNA测序进一步记录多样性，并在自主珊瑚礁监测结构上招募Biota。将保留大约20,000个标本，用于在博物馆收藏中进行研究，成像和测序，并分发给合作分类学家网络进行分析。结果，估计有3000种将被充分表征。研究人员将描述有必要的新物种，并将评估遗物主义，底层孤立，生态形成和长距离殖民的相对作用，以作为阿拉伯半岛礁社区多样性，民主和进化新颖性的来源。这些数据将在公共存储库中共享，它将提供有关海洋生物多样性的基线信息，以监测目的，并与印度西太平洋海洋地区的其他领域进行比较。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的。

项目成果

Two new species and a new record of Bopyrinae (Isopoda: Bopyridae) infesting Alpheidae and Hippolytidae, with comments on the genus Bopyrina Kossmann, 1881.

侵染 Alpheidae 和 Hippolytidae 的 Bopyrinae（等足目：Bopyridae）的两个新种和新记录，以及对 Bopyrina Kossmann 属的评论，1881 年。

• DOI: 10.1007/s11230-021-09968-2
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Systematic parasitology
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: An, J.;Xi, Q.;Paulay, G.
• 通讯作者: Paulay, G.

On some encrusting Xeniidae (Octocorallia): Re-examination of the type material of Sansibia flava (May, 1898) and a description of new taxa

关于一些有壳的 Xeniidae (Octocorallia)：对 Sansibia flava 模式材料的重新审查（1898 年 5 月）和新类群的描述

• DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.4.3
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Zootaxa
• 影响因子: 0.9
• 作者: BENAYAHU, YEHUDA;EKINS, MERRICK;OFWEGEN, LEEN P.;SAMIMI-NAMIN, KAVEH;MCFADDEN, CATHERINE S.
• 通讯作者: MCFADDEN, CATHERINE S.