Acknowledgements
Financial support for the expeditions was given from the German Science
Foundation to SB (BR3843/4-1,5-1 and MerMet17-06) with support of the
shiptime on RV Sonne by the BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und
Forschung, Germany). This work was also supported by the DFG initiative
1991 ‘Taxon-omics’ [grant number RE2808/3-1 and RE2808/3-2]. We are
happy about the excellent support of the sampling during the expeditions
by the crews of the research vessels RV Meteor, RV Poseidon, RV Maria
Sybilla Merian and RV Sonne. The processing of the samples would not
have been possible without the technical support of Karen Jeskulke,
Nicole Gatzemeier and Antje Fischer during the sorting and data
management at the DZMB. Kathrin Phillipps-Bussau provided the final
museum numbers from the CeNak. Thanks to Michael Sheridan for checking
our English grammar. Thanks to Jørgen Olesen and the Museum in
Copenhagen for allowing access to the Wolff material of H. b.
bicuspis and H. b. tepidus . Terue Kihara, Karlotta Kürzel and
Alex Kienecke are thanked for making it possible to complete the CLSM
pictures in Wilhelmshaven to illustrate the male developmental stages.
This is publication 77 of the Senckenberg am Meer Molecular Laboratory,
XX of Confocal Laboratory and 13 of Proteomics Laboratory.