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Project

Diversity and biogeography of deep-sea nematodes in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone: integrating morphology and genetics

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3F015515

Duration

01 October 2015 → 30 September 2019

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Ann Vanreusel

Fellow

Lara Macheriotou

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Animal biology

Keywords

Nematodes next generation sequencing Biodiversity

Project description

The Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ) in the tropical North Pacific the largest known reserve of commercially lucrative polymetallic nodules and this area remains mostly unexplored biologically. The current research projects aims at providing a description of the biodiversity and biogeography of deep-sea Nematodes in the CCFZ through a combination of molecular and morphological identification of species

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