| 39 | Metagenetic community analysis of marine planktonic copepods in the Pacific |  | | Metagenetic community analysis of marine planktonic copepods in the Pacific | National Research Institute of Fisheries Science | Junya Hirai | jhirai@affrc.go.jp | Japan |
| 64 | Characterization of the plankton community composition in Málaga Bay (NW Alboran Sea) by means of integrative taxonomy. |  | | Characterization of the plankton community composition in Málaga Bay (NW Alboran Sea) by means of integrative taxonomy. | Instituto Español de Oceanografía, C.O. Málaga | Lidia Yebra | lidia.yebra@ma.ieo.es | Spain |
| 74 | Integrated North Sea zooplankton identification: a combination of morphology, DNA and proteome analyses towards a cost and time-effective application |  | | Integrated North Sea zooplankton identification: a combination of morphology, DNA and proteome analyses towards a cost and time-effective application | Senckenberg am Meer, German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB) | Silke Laakmann | slaakmann@senckenberg.de | Germany |
| 86 | Annual cycle of larval fish community in the central-north Red Sea: comparing offshore vs. coral reef waters |  | | Annual cycle of larval fish community in the central-north Red Sea: comparing offshore vs. coral reef waters | Red Sea Research Center, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | Stamatina Isari | stamatina.isari@kaust.edu.sa | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| 102 | Monitoring Spawning Activity in Cabo Pulmo National Park Using Molecular Identification of Fish Eggs and Larvae |  | | Monitoring Spawning Activity in Cabo Pulmo National Park Using Molecular Identification of Fish Eggs and Larvae | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego | A.L. Ahern | aahern@ucsd.edu | United States |
| 126 | Evolution in 3 dimensions – Biodiversity of midwater and deep-sea zooplankton communities. |  | | Evolution in 3 dimensions – Biodiversity of midwater and deep-sea zooplankton communities. | BreMarE - Bremen Marine Ecology, University of Bremen (FB 02) | Holger Auel | hauel@uni-bremen.de | Germany |
| 129 | Possibilities and challenges for using morphological and molecular methods to unravel mysteries in the phylogeny of typical benthopelagic deep-sea calanoids |  | | Possibilities and challenges for using morphological and molecular methods to unravel mysteries in the phylogeny of typical benthopelagic deep-sea calanoids | Senckenberg am Meer, German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB) | Jasmin Renz | jrenz@senckenberg.de | Germany |
| 131 | BIODIVERSITY OF COPEPODS IN BAHIA DE LA PAZ, MEXICO. |  | | BIODIVERSITY OF COPEPODS IN BAHIA DE LA PAZ, MEXICO. | Instituto Politécnico Nacional - CICIMAR | Sergio Hernández-Trujillo | strujil@ipn.mx | Baja California Sur. México |
| 142 | Assessment of an abyssal near-bottom zooplankton community via metabarcoding |  | | Assessment of an abyssal near-bottom zooplankton community via metabarcoding | Hawaii Pacific University | Kersten, O. | okersten@my.hpu.edu | United States of America |
| 150 | Distribution of zooplankton in ocean currents: high taxonomic resolution analyses using metatranscriptomic approach |  | | Distribution of zooplankton in ocean currents: high taxonomic resolution analyses using metatranscriptomic approach | Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica | Ryuji Machida | ryujimachida@gmail.com | Taiwan |
| 157 | Benchmarking DNA metabarcoding for measuring biodiversity and assessing environmental status |  | | Benchmarking DNA metabarcoding for measuring biodiversity and assessing environmental status | Marine Research Division, AZTI | Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta | nrodriguez@azti.es | Bizkaia |
| 162 | Metagenetic Sequencing of Zooplankton Communities in the High-Diversity Central North Pacific |  | | Metagenetic Sequencing of Zooplankton Communities in the High-Diversity Central North Pacific | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Stephanie A. Matthews | egoetze@hawaii.edu | USA |
| 167 | Multidisciplinary approach to Oncaeidae diagnostics in the Gulf of Naples: from Giesbrecht to the molecular era |  | | Multidisciplinary approach to Oncaeidae diagnostics in the Gulf of Naples: from Giesbrecht to the molecular era | Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn | Iole Di Capua | dicapua@szn.it | Italy |
| 170 | USE OF METAGENETIC ANALYSIS TO MONITOR MESOZOOPLANKTON BIODIVERSITY: THE ADRIATIC SEA AS A CASE STUDY |  | | USE OF METAGENETIC ANALYSIS TO MONITOR MESOZOOPLANKTON BIODIVERSITY: THE ADRIATIC SEA AS A CASE STUDY | CNR - ISSIA | Sergio Stefanni (CNR - ISSIA) | sergio.stefanni@ge.issia.cnr.it, sstefanni@gmail.com | Italy |
| 171 | Inventory of marine Copepoda and Cladocera (Crustacea) in Norway: COPCLAD |  | | Inventory of marine Copepoda and Cladocera (Crustacea) in Norway: COPCLAD | Institute of Marine Research | Tone Falkenhaug | tonef@imr.no | Norway |
| 180 | LARGE SPATIAL SCALE METABARCODE ANALYSIS OF ZOOPLANKTON OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA |  | | LARGE SPATIAL SCALE METABARCODE ANALYSIS OF ZOOPLANKTON OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA | CNR - ISSIA | Sergio Stefanni (CNR-ISSIA, Italy) | sergio.stefanni@ge.issia.cnr.it | Italy |
| 190 | Comparison of Metabarcoding and Microscopy for Estuarine Plankton Monitoring: Quantitative Character and Non-Indigenous Species Detectability. |  | | Comparison of Metabarcoding and Microscopy for Estuarine Plankton Monitoring: Quantitative Character and Non-Indigenous Species Detectability. | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) | David Abad | david.abad@ehu.eus | Spain |
| 192 | HYPNO – Hydrozoan pelagic diversity in Norway |  | | HYPNO – Hydrozoan pelagic diversity in Norway | University Museum of Bergen | Aino Hosia | aino.hosia@uib.no | Norway |
| 198 | Can e-DNA help provide better represent zooplankton diversity? A comparison of net versus water sampling |  | | Can e-DNA help provide better represent zooplankton diversity? A comparison of net versus water sampling | Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science | Rowena Fay Stern | rost@sahfos.ac.uk | UK |
| 220 | Cosmopolitan, bipolar or endemic? – Phylogeography of polar copepod species-groups |  | | Cosmopolitan, bipolar or endemic? – Phylogeography of polar copepod species-groups | Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung | Astrid Cornils | astrid.cornils@awi.de | Germany |
| 260 | Diversity of the chaetognath Pseudosagitta maxima (Conant, 1896) in the Atlantic Ocean revealed by molecular and morphological approaches |  | | Diversity of the chaetognath Pseudosagitta maxima (Conant, 1896) in the Atlantic Ocean revealed by molecular and morphological approaches | P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology | Dmitry Kulagin | kulagin.dima@gmail.com | Russian Federation |
| 262 | Morphological and molecular evidence reveal underestimated ctenophore species richness – peeking into the group of unidentified species |  | | Morphological and molecular evidence reveal underestimated ctenophore species richness – peeking into the group of unidentified species | Linnaeus University | Majaneva S | sanna.majaneva@gmail.com | Sweden |
| 276 | New insight on the population structure of Calanus finmarchicus in the North Atlantic using Next-Generation Sequencing technologies |  | | New insight on the population structure of Calanus finmarchicus in the North Atlantic using Next-Generation Sequencing technologies | Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, University of Nordland | Marvin Choquet | marvin.choquet@uin.no | Norway |
| 349 | Metabarcoding Zooplankton Diversity in the Sargasso Sea – Taxonomy and Functionality |  | | Metabarcoding Zooplankton Diversity in the Sargasso Sea – Taxonomy and Functionality | Bermuda Insitute of Ocean Sciences | Samiah Alam | leocadio@bios.edu | Bermuda |
| 366 | Morphological and genetic analysis of Oithona attenuata (Copepoda, Cyclopida) populations in the coastal waters of Southeast Asia, Japan and Pacific Ocean |  | | Morphological and genetic analysis of Oithona attenuata (Copepoda, Cyclopida) populations in the coastal waters of Southeast Asia, Japan and Pacific Ocean | Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Marine Science Institute | Mary Mar Noblezada | mmpnoblezada@gmail.com | Philippines |
| 384 | MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry as a novel tool for zooplankton biodiversity studies - Copepod distribution throughout the eastern Atlantic Ocean |  | | MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry as a novel tool for zooplankton biodiversity studies - Copepod distribution throughout the eastern Atlantic Ocean | BreMarE - Bremen Marine Ecology, Marine Zoology, University of Bremen | Maya Bode | mabode@uni-bremen.de | Germany |
| 399 | Two sympatric species of Cyanea (Scyphozoa) from Arctic seas distinguished by the molecular methods |  | | Two sympatric species of Cyanea (Scyphozoa) from Arctic seas distinguished by the molecular methods | Pertsov White Sea Biological Station, Lomonosov Moscow State University | Glafira Kolbasova | utricularia57@yandex.ru | Russia, Moscow |
| 404 | Trying to resolve the taxonomic confusion of Paracalanus parvus species complex (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the Mediterranean and Black Seas through a combined analysis of morphology, molecular taxonomy and DNA metabarcoding |  | | Trying to resolve the taxonomic confusion of Paracalanus parvus species complex (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the Mediterranean and Black Seas through a combined analysis of morphology, molecular taxonomy and DNA metabarcoding | Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr | GREECE |
| 410 | Metabarcoding analysis of zooplankton diversity: applications for monitoring regional and interannual variation of the pelagic assemblage of the NW Atlantic continental shelf |  | | Metabarcoding analysis of zooplankton diversity: applications for monitoring regional and interannual variation of the pelagic assemblage of the NW Atlantic continental shelf | University of Connecticut | Ann Bucklin (University of Connecticut) | ann.bucklin@uconn.edu | USA |
| 434 | Resolving identification challenge of calanoid copepods Calanus finmarchicus and C. glacialis: molecular and morphological advances |  | | Resolving identification challenge of calanoid copepods Calanus finmarchicus and C. glacialis: molecular and morphological advances | University of Nordland | Irina Smolina | irina_smolina@hotmail.com | Norway |