Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professor Dr. Dominik Begerow, since 10/2020
Subject Area
Evolution and Systematics of Plants and Fungi
Term
from 2017 to 2023
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 350584689
Taxonomy is the science most directly relevant for documenting and understanding changes in biodiversity, whether from species loss or from species introduction. Over the past fifteen years, this field has undergone a major shift because of its move towards DNA-based data, which can readily be shared. Research in this Priority Programme encompasses modern taxonomic approaches to discover, name, and quantify organismal diversity as the basis for documenting, assessing, and mitigating changes in biodiversity. Research will focus on one or more of the following areas: (i) discovery and delimitation of species or other evolving units of interest, using modern approaches, (ii) accelerating the naming process and generating updatable identification tools, descriptions, classifications, or monographs, and (iii) efficient or novel use of natural history collections through automated image analysis, genetic or genomic data from historic specimens or living collections, or new ways of comparing and quantifying traits. Approaches to be applied or developed will include automatic specimen identification with computer-vision or barcoding approaches; new tools to utilize internal morphological characters, such as micro-computed tomography (micro-CT); and bioinformatics for species delimitation from high-throughput sequencing (HTS). Phylogenetics is quickly migrating towards HTS data, and some sequencing methods also provide allelic information suitable for coalescent-based phylogenetic analyses at the species level.This Priority Programme will bring together teams addressing phylogenies, hybrid species, or eco-morphological traits relevant to taxonomy by using or developing novel empirical or analytical methods. Research concerned with clarifying the meaning of the tens of thousands of existing, but poorly typified, names through modern methods is integrated as well. Thus, this Priority Programme unites scientists working on the systematics/taxonomy of animals, fungi, plants, or eukaryotic microorganisms and seeks for exchange of expertise in the application of broad sets of systematic data, ranging from field collection to -omics-based or wet lab approaches, ideally applicable to different kingdoms. We support a comprehensive and integrated data management plan, and to develop standards for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable taxonomic data (FAIR principles).
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Ehemalige Antragstellerin
Professorin Dr. Susanne Sabine Renner, until 9/2020
