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The copepods outnumber, in terms of individual animals, every other group of multicellular animals on earth, including insects and nematode worms, and are critical components of the world’s freshwater and marine ecosystems (Hardy 1970). Copepods are also vectors of human diseases such as cholera and...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.453.2786 http://www.monoculus.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Final Copepod White Paper for WAC.pdf |
| Summary: | The copepods outnumber, in terms of individual animals, every other group of multicellular animals on earth, including insects and nematode worms, and are critical components of the world’s freshwater and marine ecosystems (Hardy 1970). Copepods are also vectors of human diseases such as cholera and can be major pathogens of wild and farmed aquatic animals. Despite their central importance, there are currently no large-scale genomics resources for copepods and relatively few publically available sequences. Here, we explain how such resources would facilitate the development of fundamental biological knowledge, addressing key global problems and answering questions of broad interest. This paper is a collaborative effort by members of the international copepod research community. Its objective is to provide impetus for a much-needed initiative to develop large-scale genomics resources for copepods. The conference workshop that led to this paper was the first of its kind for copepods. It was convened to promote international collaboration and to facilitate large-scale copepod genomics projects with compelling impact on basic and applied research problems. |
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