Acknowledgements
We are very grateful for the generous provision of samples by Ann
Bucklin, Leo Blanco-Bercial, Astthor Gislason, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Tone
Falkenhaug, Piotr Margonski, Lidia Yebra, Jens-Peter Herrmann, Jens
Flöter, Gesche Winkler, Saskia Brix and Elena Markhasheva. This study
was supported by the DFG initiative 1991 “Taxono-omics” (grant number
RE2808/3-1/2). HIFMB is a collaboration between the
Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine
Research, and the Carl-vonOssietzky University Oldenburg, initially
funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and the
Volkswagen Foundation through the “Niedersächsisches Vorab” grant
program (grant no. ZN3285). The authors thank the Working Group on
Morphological and Molecular Taxonomy of the International Council for
the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) for facilitating this research. This
is publication number 19 of Senckenberg am Meer Proteome
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