  Assembling the Tree of Life
(AToL) is a
large research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Its goal is to reconstruct the evolutionary origins of all living things.
This AToL: Decapoda project is aimed at clarifying the evolutionary
history of the decapods (both fossil and extant),
including the shrimp, crabs, crayfish, and lobsters.
Our group is comprised of five principal investigators and
a host of other collaborators at multiple institutions across the globe.
The Project Overview
has more information.
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Assembling
bibliographic and textual information for the systematic
revision is a major task. You are welcome to:
A major outreach component of
AToL: Decapoda is
We are pleased to host the
Part of the challenge of revising a group as large and
complex as the Decapoda is understanding the equally large
vocabulary of specialized
terms used to describe the animals. The Decapoda are part of the
Phylum Crustacea. As part of this project, we have developed a
