ARTS: A corevision of the pinhole borers (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) and symbiotic fungi (Raffaelea spp.) via multi-generational systematics training

艺术：通过多代系统学训练对针孔蛀虫（鞘翅目：象甲科：扁豆亚科）和共生真菌（拉斐菌属）进行共同观察

• 批准号: 2342481
• 负责人: Andrew Johnson
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-08-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2342481&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ARTS; corevision; pinhole; borers; Coleoptera

Pinhole borers are an understudied group of woodboring beetles that drill into trees and farm fungi for food. Some have become pests of trees, some are becoming invasive, and hundreds more are rare, unique, and entirely unknown to science. Given the ongoing disappearance of tropical forests, many pinhole borers may already be extinct. This project will summarize what is known about these beetles and their symbiotic fungi while generating new data about them using modern DNA sequencing and microscopy technologies. Because the lack of taxonomists working on pinhole borers and their symbiotic fungi is a biosecurity gap for the U.S – both the beetles and the fungi can become pests – this project will train graduate and undergraduate students as the next generation of entomologists and mycologists. Outreach goals include the broad dissemination of accurate information about wood borers through curating information on Wikipedia, and a specific campaign to encourage homeowners in the United States to retain dead wood on their properties as a refuge of biodiversity in urban landscapes.This project will undertake a simultaneous revision of two symbiont groups that are charismatic, important, and sometimes pestiferous, but suffer from the typical taxonomic impediments. The main goals of the project are to identify, classify and describe the pinhole borer beetles and their symbiotic fungi, in addition to documenting the many interactions between these two groups and the trees in which they live. Attaining these aims are enabled by phylogenetically analyzing DNA sequence data from thousands of individuals and collecting new morphological data using photographs and microscopy to identify beetle-fungus interactions. The vast datasets generated by this project will feed into many products which will be made for both humans and online aggregators, including an e-monograph of pinhole borers, taxonomic publications, photographs, and an AI-based identification tool.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.

针孔钻孔是一群木堡甲虫，它们钻入树木和农场真菌供食物。有些已经成为树木的害虫，有些正在变得侵略性，数百种是罕见，独特的，并且是科学完全不明的。鉴于热带森林的持续消失，许多针孔的钻孔可能已经灭绝。该项目将总结有关这些甲虫及其共生真菌的了解，同时使用现代DNA测序和显微镜技术生成有关它们的新数据。因为缺乏从事针孔鲍尔犬及其共生真菌的分类学家是美国的生物安全差距 - 甲虫和真菌都可以成为害虫 - 该项目将作为下一代昆虫学家和神学家培训研究生和本科生。推广目标包括通过策划Wikipedia的策划信息的广泛传播有关木仓的准确信息，以及一项具体的运动，以鼓励美国的房主保留死木，以此作为城市景观中的生物多样性的避难所。这个项目将对两个象征性的群体进行一次富有特征，有时属于典型的典型符合性的象征性的群体，但要施加了巨大的依赖。该项目的主要目标是识别，分类和描述针孔鲍尔甲虫及其共生真菌，此外还记录了这两组与它们所居住的树木之间的许多相互作用。通过从成千上万个个体的系统发育分析的DNA序列数据并使用照片和显微镜收集新的形态数据来识别甲壳虫 - 膜 - 连通相互作用的新形态数据，从而实现了这些目标。该项目生成的广大数据集将用于许多产品，这些产品将用于人类和在线聚合器，包括针孔鲍尔（Pin孔鲍尔（Pinsonoloy）的电子抄集，分类学出版物，照片和基于AI的识别工具）。该奖项反映了NSF的法规任务，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和广泛的评论来评估，并通过评估来诚实地进行了评估。