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Cnid ToL: 2006-2010 U.S. NSF’s Assembling the Tree of Life: An Integrative Approach to Investigating Cnidarian Phylogeny 9 PIs University of Kansas Paulyn Cartwright, Daphne Fautin & Allen Collins (Collins: National Systematics Lab of NOAA’s Fisheries Service & Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History) Ohio State University Meg Daly Harvey Mudd College Cathy McFadden Duke University Cliff Cunningham Northern Illinois University Neil Blackstone University of the Virgin Islands Sandra Romano Pomona College Daniel Martinez Dozens of Collaborators Mike Dawson (University of California, Davis) Scott France (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) Steven Haddock (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) Dan Janies (Ohio State University) Antonio Carlos Marques (Universidade de Sao Paulo) Peter Schuchert (Muséum d‘Histoire Naturelle de Genève) Phil Alderslade (Australia), Steven L. Bailey (USA), Bastian Bentlage (Germany), Nando Boero (Italy), Steve Cairns (USA), Dale Calder (Canada), Casey Dunn (USA), Yakko Hirano (Japan), Thomas Jankowski (Switzerland), B. P. Jupp (Oman), Shin Kubota (Japan), Nancy Knowlton (USA), Cheryl Lewis Ames (USA), Alberto Lindner (Brazil), Dhugal Lindsay (Japan), George Mackie (Canada), George Matsumoto (USA), Mónica Medina (USA), Hermes Mianzan (Argentina), Alvaro Migotto (Brazil), Maria Pia Miglietta (Panama), Tina Molodtsova (Russia), Zilda Braga Morais (Portugal), Andre Morandini (Brazil), Gustav Paulay (USA), Vicki and John Pearse (USA), Bernard Picton (UK), Phil Pugh (UK), Ekaterina Raikova (Russia), Kevin Raskoff (USA), Bernd Schierwater (Germany). . . And Many More! Some Diversity of Medusozoa Stauromedusae Cubomedusae Trachymedusae Semaeostomeae Coronatae Rhizostomeae Limnomedusae Actinulida Narcomedusae Siphonophora Leptothecata Laingiomedusae Anthoathecata Some Diversity of Hexacorallia Actiniaria Zoanthidea Ceriantharia Corallimorpharia Antipatharia Scleractinia Some Diversity of Octocorallia O. Alcyonacea O. Helioporacea O. Pennatulacea Blue coral 2 families Sea pens Soft corals & sea fans 14 families 29 families Photos: G.C. Williams 10,000 – 11,000 Accepted Species Medusozoa Anthozoa Octocorallia Hexacorallia Scyphozoa Cubozoa Staurozoa mt mt Bridge et al., 1995 Hydrozoa What We Promised To Do Obtain DNA from 1,800+ cnidarian species from around the world Collection/vouchering standards are BarCode compliant, documented through new module of “Hexacorallians of the World” Cover every “family” and focus on key clades of interest Generate 23 million bp of sequence data, from 10 or so markers Reconstruct and test hypotheses of evolutionary relationships Integration CMoL, CBOL, etc. Positive Externality for Barcoding: CO1 sequences, BOLD? Will ID and sequence CO1 (and 16S) from any medusozoan species and disparate anthozoans (95% eth, but medusae need second/portion in 4% buff. Formalin), but. . . . Validation: CO1 and taxonomic identifications, genetic IDs Will provide multiples to those interested in assessing CO1 variation Will work on species-level marker(s) for Anthozoa I will barcode and try to ID any glass sponges (Hexactinellida)