We announce the availability of a NERC Doctoral Training Partnership opportunity (PhD studentship) held jointly between the British Antarctic Survey and Bristol University (through the GW4+ scheme bristol.ac.uk/gw4plusdtp/programme/), to commence in autumn 2015. Students are eligible for full funding if they are a UK citizen or EU national who has been resident in the UK for three years at the time the studentship commences. For further eligibility information see the following link: rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/TermsConditionsTrainingGrants.pdf Resolving the evolutionary history of a Southern Ocean ¡hotspot¢ family: the philobryid bivalves The Southern Ocean (SO) is a unique and isolated marine habitat, with over-deepened continental shelves, oceanography strongly influenced by the circum-Antarctic current and a low-temperature, stenothermal environment hosting a vast number of endemic and unusual species. The recent Census of Antarctic Marine increased the knowledge on known species and their biogeographic distributions but for most taxa, Southern Ocean diversity is still greatly underestimated. The Philobryidae (Bivalvia: Arcoida) are with 13 species one of the most speciose marine bivalve families in the SO, cover a depth range from the intertidal to the abyssal zone and have their global diversity hotspot in the SO. Previous genetic work on this family has been extremely limited. Despite this diversity, the genetic relationships and shell morphology of this family are poorly known, possibly due to their small size (
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