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Molecular Studies of Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity: Status and Prospects

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Molecular Approaches to the Study of the Ocean

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Molecular methods have become increasingly available to organismal biologists over the past decade, and marine biologists have been quick to apply them to study biodiversity in the sea. The goals of this chapter are to illustrate how molecular techniques have been specifically applied to marine invertebrate biodiversity studies and to point out emerging research directions. The term biodiversity has different meanings to different audiences, so it is useful first to describe what is meant here. Biodiversity is ‘the collection of genomes, species, and ecosystems occurring in a geographically defined region’ (National Academy of Sciences, 1995). For present purposes, biodiversity research includes studies that describe patterns or those that are aimed at elucidating mechanisms for the origination, maintenance, structure in space and time, and loss of such diversity. When defined so broadly, biodiversity studies can include phylogenetic, ecological, biogeographic, paleontological, physiological, developmental, biochemical and molecular investigations, so long as the focus is on spatial and temporal dynamics of diversity.

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