Diversity and biogeography of deep-sea nematodes in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone: integrating morphology and genetics

The Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ) in the tropical North Pacific the largest known reserve of commercially lucrative polymetallic nodules and this area remains mostly unexplored biologically. The current research projects aims at providing a description of the biodiversity and biogeography of deep-sea Nematodes in the CCFZ through a combination of molecular and morphological identification of species