This site is supported by a PEET grant from the National Science Foundation.
The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with academic institutions, botanical gardens, freshwater and marine institutes, and natural history museums seeks to enhance and stimulate taxonomic research and help prepare future generations of experts. The program, Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET), supports competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms. This effort is designed to encourage the training of new generations of taxonomists and to translate current expertise into electronic databases and other formats with broad accessibility to the scientific community. This site is supported by the National Science Foundation through a PEET grant awarded to Drs. Richard Triemer (Rutgers University) and Mark Farmer (University of Georgia) in collaboration with Dr. Visitacion Conforti (University of Buenos Aires).
The Euglenoid Project
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THE PURPOSE OF THIS WEBSITE
is to provide a research and teaching resource for students, teachers and
researchers interested in the group of protists commonly known as, the euglenoids.
The general features of the group and examples of cellular organization
are provided in Introduction to the Euglenoids. The classification systems used to separate these protists
into definable groups are discussed in Taxonomy
- Past and Present. This is followed
by a Taxonomic Key which can be used to identify organisms to genus. The
evolutionary relationships among euglenoids, and between euglenoids and
other protists are presented in Phylogeny. If you are searching for information on a specific euglenoid,
an Alphabetical Listing of Taxa is provided to assist you. Here you will find links that
lead to diagnoses and information about individual genera. The dynamic nature
of swimming, wriggling and eating in euglenoids is dramatic. Quicktime Movies have been provided
to illustrate these dynamic processes, many of which characterize certain
types of euglenoids. A Bibliography of euglenoid literature provides the scientific basis
for much of the information presented in this project and is available for
those seeking original references and additional information.
