Manet Team: Cnidaria and Ctenophora
We have a broad interest in the taxonomy, diversity, distributions, systematics, evolution, ecology, and general biology of medusozoan cnidarians and ctenophores in particular, but also other non-crustacean zooplankton.
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Manet is the Norwegian word for jellyfish, including both cnidarians and ctenophores. In Manet Team, we use a wide range of morphological and molecular methods to adress various questions relating to diversity, ecology, and evolution of medusozoan cnidarians and ctenophores. Our ongoing work includes studies on integrative taxonomy and systematics, life cycles, faunistics and biogeography, species interactions, and eDNA for gelatinous zooplankton. We have worked extensively on DNA-barcoding and mapping the diversity and distributions of particularly the Norwegian hydrozoan fauna, covering a large portion of both pelagic (siphonophores and hydromedusae) and benthic (hydroids) species and life stages, in collaboration with the Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative and NorBOL, but our research is not limited to Norwegian waters or hydrozoans.
Our current projects include ParaZoo (PI Martell) studying the diversity of metazoan parasites of non-crustacean zooplankton, Pole2Pole (PI Soto) looking into the diversity and evolution of bipolar hydrozoans found in the Arctic and the Antarctic, NOAH (PI Soto) on the diversity of Arctic Hydrozoa, HYDROINS on Swedish anthoathecates (PhD student Doris Björling/Gothenburg University), JellySafe on Apolemia spp., GLOBECC on Faroese jellyfish diversity, and PLANKTONICS eDNA citizen science initiative with HX Expeditions.
Please visit our personal pages below to find out more about our current and past research activities.
Interested students are encouraged to contact us to discuss potential MSc projects or other student opportunities.
