DIPOT · Diversity and phylogeny of Tanaidacea form southeastern Australia
6РП — Действия „Мария Кюри“
- Период
- 2007-07-17 → 2009-07-16
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- 187 084 €
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Накратко на български
Разнообразието и произходът на ракоподобните от реда Tanaidacea в югоизточна Австралия се анализират чрез описание на нови видове. Това помага да се разбере как тези организми са разпределени в плитките и дълбоките води на океана.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
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Final Activity Report Summary - DIPOT (Diversity and phylogeny of Tanaidacea form southeastern Australia)
The project had four original objectives: 1. How many tanaid species inhabit the southeastern Australian region and how can they be recognised? 2. What is the origin, relationship and radiation of the Australian Tanaidacea? 3. How are these species distributed geographically and by habitat? 4. Are tanaids more diversified in the deep sea than in shallow waters? The core of the project was a study of the diversity of tanaids inhabiting the Australian region. The group is generally poorly recognised and knowledge on those from the Australian region is just 'the tip of the iceberg'. Before the beginning of this project the list of the known tanaids from the region included 52 nominal species. During the project another 67 species were described. A phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Paratanaoida was undertaken using 93 species or assumed monophyletic genera. The attempts included two outgroups (Apseudes poorei and Tanais dulongi) and 93 ingroups and 83 informative characters. The results were presented during the First International Symposium entitled 'Advances in Crustacean Taxonomy' October, 2008. Close to 500 taxonomic papers dealing with Tanaidacea have been digitized (PDF files). Together with Endnote database of the literature of the Tanaidacea (ca. 1800 entries) were published in DVD format. OCR files with the papers published before 1959 are accessible at the webpage http://peracarida.usm.edu/iwp_home.html. The new objective was CReefs Program (Census of Coral Reefs), a project of the Census of Marine Life (CoML) initiative. The tanaids were collected during three trips: twice to Lizard Island (NE Australia, 2-22 April, 2008, 20-28 February, 2009) and once Ningaloo (WA, 5-25 June, 2008). The extensive collections of about 200 samples were made during SCUBA diving http://www.aims.gov.au/creefs/field-program.html. The samples were sorted and preliminary determined to morpho-species level in the field. So far about 110 tanaid species respectively have been listed and recorded in the CReefs database. This material will be further studied during the PhD dissertation at the University of Lodz, Poland.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
The marine fauna of southern Australia is very different from that of the rest of Australia and of other continents because of its long isolation. Its affinities are more with other Gondwanan continents (New Zealand, South America in particular) than with tropical northern Australia although elements of Indo-West Pacific fauna do occur.Its evolution suggests that no global study of a taxon can be complete without examination of the Australian fauna. The southeastern coast of Australia is an excellent place for studying the systematics of marine invertebrates because it includes a variety of environments along a coastline from subtropical to cold temperate environments.The principal aim of DiPoT addresses the scarcity of knowledge of one diverse yet poorly understood crustacean order (Tanaidacea) an important component of benthic marine food-webs and known to be a significant contributor to marine biodiversity. Biodiversity and ecological research has shown that the tanaids of southeastern Australia are specially abundant and diverse, more so than in many other regions.Taxonomic descriptions and mapping of species' distributions will lead to hypotheses about the origin, evolution and radiation of Tanaidacea in the region and their relationship to the group in other parts of the world. The hypothesis will be tested against a background of present-day understanding of Gondwana biogeography such as timing of separation of Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.Studying tanaids from southeastern Australia, supervised by a world leader in crustacean taxonomy and phylogeny, Dr Gary Poore, will allow the fellow to enhance her expertise in taxonomy, master state-of-the-art taxonomic techniques (SEM, digital photography), to employ modern software (DELTA, PAUP), to better understand modern and classical concepts of evolution, and to develop a better capability for interpreting taxonomic results in an evolutionary contest.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
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