Laura Vann edited Rationale_and_Significance_3_4__.md  over 8 years ago

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This study will be the first to explicitly explore microeukaryotic diversity in multiple species of seagrass and their freshwater relatives through sequencing and culturing. The proposed project will result in an increase in the number of marine microeukaryotic ribsomal RNA sequences in open online databases as well as increase the number of microeukaryotic cultures available to researchers around the world for characterization and experimentation. Addtionally, this project will expand knowledge of the tree of life and help with current research investigating the topology of this tree. The project will also include a significant amount of outreach and interdisciplinary collaboration both at the local level (undergraduate researchers, high school students) and the global level (blogging, collaborators). **maybe say something about why we will be successful, though we did already say this above. Or some concluding remark**  ----------end--------- ----------end---------\\  **stuff I moved out below**  unexplored ecosystem, first to use sequencing to characterize microeuks associated with _Z. marina_, we have 16S data + tons of metadata (ZEN) to enrich analysis **I think we should include this statement in our 'Approach' section**