Manet Team: Cnidaria and Ctenophora research

Our team has a broad interest in the taxonomy, diversity, distributions, systematics, evolution, ecology, and general biology of cnidarians and ctenophores in particular, but we also have a soft spot for other non-crustacean zooplankton.

Ptychogastria sp. irridescence — Photo: Aino Hosia for UiB

Affiliation

About the research group

Manet is the Norwegian word for jellyfish, covering both cnidarian and ctenophoran jellies. In Manet Team, we use a wide range of morphological and molecular methods to adress various questions relating to diversity, ecology, and evolution of cnidarians and ctenophores. Our ongoing work includes studies on integrative taxonomy and systematics, life cycles, faunistics and biogeography, species associations, as well as metabarcoding applications for molecular biodiversity assesment and trophic interactions. We have worked extensively on providing reference sequences for and mapping the diversity and distributions of particularly the Norwegian hydrozoan fauna in collaboration with the Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative and NorBOL, covering a large portion of both pelagic (siphonophores and hydromedusae) and benthic (hydroids) species and life stages, but our research is not limited to Norwegian waters or hydrozoans.

Please visit our personal pages below to find out more about our current and past research activities.

Interested in joining the Manet Team? Get in touch with us, or check out a selection of our available MSc projects. (external link)