8.2 | Benefit-Sharing
Benefit Generated: The present study was conducted as a part of a graduate program as described in the acknowledgments. All students and researchers who participated in the class are included as co-authors. Through the study, all students–whose PhD thesis topic is not related to zooplankton ecology–learned the zooplankton molecular ecology by participating in the sampling, analysis, and manuscript preparation. Therefore, this study provides an opportunity to disseminate zooplankton molecular ecology to students who are new to the discipline. Lastly, as described above, the sequence data generated from the study have been shared with the scientific community.