I have read all about your phylogenetic systematics.

Sarah L. Mincks, Presidential International Polar Year Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alaska, Fairbanks — deep-sea ecology/biogeography/ phylogenetics; [email protected].

The marine environment covers a wide thermal range, the variability of which has facilitated extensive speciation at all phylogenetic levels, from micro-organisms to mammals, and includes many metabolites and other resources in living or dead form.

The Collection maintains an online catalogue accessible to the public, which includes the scientific name, sampling information, phenotypic characteristics, culture conditions, and gene sequences used for the phylogenetic analyses.

It was recommended that megafauna should be collected by epi benthic sled, trawl, baited traps and/or submersibles in order to identify species for molecular phylogenetic analyses and for voucher specimens.

As marine scientists and taxonomists continue to work to expand our knowledge, bioprospectors can have direct access to information on species names, distribution, and abundance and perhaps even phylogenetic frameworks on which to build hypotheses of occurrence of particular classes of compounds.

The biotechnology sector is one of the most dynamic research areas with increasing prospects for growth and profitability.62 The marine environment covers a wide thermal range whose variability has facilitated extensive speciation at all phylogenetic levels, from micro-organisms to mammals, and includes plenty of metabolites and other resources in living or dead form.