ARTS: Deploying integrative systematics to untangle Lucidota, the Gordian knot of Neotropical firefly taxonomy.

艺术：运用综合系统学来解开新热带萤火虫分类学的棘手难题 Lucidota。

• 批准号: 2323041
• 负责人: Kathrin Stanger-Hall
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2323041&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ARTS; Deploying; integrative; systematics; untangle

This project will document the major firefly groups across South America. Documenting and understanding the diversity of life on Earth is an essential step towards preserving biodiversity in the face of global threats, especially for organisms that are poorly known. This is true even for fireflies, charismatic beetles that have inspired childhood memories and poetry for centuries, and contributed to advances in biotechnology and medicine. The firefly family Lampyridae includes about 2200 named species from all over the world, but twice as many species are thought to exist. About 25% of known species occur in South America, and it is likely that an equal number still remain to be discovered there. This project will document firefly diversity in South America by discovering new species, revealing their evolutionary relationships with other fireflies worldwide, and creating tools to facilitate future research on fireflies and other beetles. Students at all stages will be broadly trained to be capable of leading biodiversity exploration in the future. A series of educational videos for the public will allow a glimpse behind the scenes into the research life of scientists, insight into how species are described, and how biodiversity is documented. This project will significantly advance the state of taxonomy for Lampyridae by attacking the biggest barriers to research on the South American fauna. Specimens in museum collections and newly available material provided by a network of Brazilian and Colombian collaborators will be used to conduct phylogenetic analysis of novel and confusing groups of South American fireflies using DNA squences and morphological data. The researchers will rectify the confusing taxonomy of Lucidota, the most vexing South American firefly genus, using integrative taxonomic approaches. The researchers will develop powerful identification tools for all South American genera and targeted groups of species. They will generate a rich variety of biodiversity data that can be easily and freely used by other researchers, citizen scientists, and the public via a convenient, internet-based, central resource for South American lampyrid taxonomy. By assessing lampyrid diversity across all major neotropical regions, this project will highlight geographical areas that deserve additional attention, and identify higher-level groups with a large proportion of undescribed species that will be the target of future taxonomic studies.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.

该项目将记录整个南美的主要萤火虫团体。在面对全球威胁时，记录和理解地球上生命的多样性是迈向维护生物多样性的重要一步，尤其是对于知名的生物体而言。即使对于萤火虫，富有魅力的甲虫，这些甲虫已经激发了几个世纪的童年记忆和诗歌，并为生物技术和医学的进步做出了贡献。 Firefly家族兰氏科包括来自世界各地的大约2200种命名物种，但认为存在的数量是许多物种的两倍。大约有25％的已知物种发生在南美，并且在那里仍然有同等数量的发现。该项目将通过发现新物种，揭示其与全球其他萤火虫的进化关系，并创建工具来促进对萤火虫和其他甲虫的未来研究，从而记录南美的萤火虫多样性。在所有阶段的学生都将接受广泛的培训，以便将来能够领导生物多样性探索。一系列为公众提供的教育视频将使幕后浏览科学家的研究生活，了解物种的描述方式以及如何记录生物多样性。该项目将通过攻击南美动物群研究的最大障碍，从而大大推动兰迪科的分类法。由巴西和哥伦比亚合作者网络提供的博物馆收藏品和新可用的材料的标本将用于使用DNA蹲和形态学数据对新型和混乱的南美萤火虫组进行系统发育分析。研究人员将使用综合分类方法来纠正Lucidota的混乱分类法，Lucidota是最令人沮丧的南美萤火虫属。研究人员将为所有南美属和有针对性的物种开发强大的识别工具。他们将通过其他研究人员，公民科学家和公众可以通过便利的，基于互联网的，基于互联网的中央资源来生成各种各样的生物多样性数据，这些数据可以轻松，自由地使用。通过评估所有主要新型新热带地区的Lampyrid多样性，该项目将重点介绍应有更多关注的地理领域，并确定具有很大比例的未描述的物种的高级群体，这些物种将成为未来分类学研究的目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的Merit和Broadia和Broadia and Impariation和Broadia and Impactia and Impactia and Impactia crritia and Impactia crarit和广泛的范围。