FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Fundamental questions in meiofauna—how small but ubiquitous animals can help to better understand Nature BT AF Martínez García, Alejandro Bonaglia, Stefano Di Domenico, Maikon Fonseca, Gustavo Ingels, Jeroen Jörger, Katharina Laumer, Christopher Leasi, Francesca Zeppilli, Daniela Baldrighi, Elisa Bik, Holly Cepeda, Diego Curini-Galletti, Marco Cutter, Asher Dos Santos, Giovanni Fattorini, Simone Frisch, Dagmar Gollner, Sabine Jondelius, Ulf Kerbl, Alexandra Kocot, Kevin Majdi, Nabil Mammola, Stefano Martín-Durán, José María Menegotto, André Montagna, Paul Nascimento, Francisco Puilandre, Nicolas Rognant, Anne Sánchez, Nuria Santos, Isaac Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas Schratzberger, Michaela Semprucci, Federica Shimabukuro, Mauricio Somerfield, Paul Struck, Torsten Sørensen, Martin Wallberg, Andreas Worsaae, Katrine Yamasaki, Hiroshi Fontaneto, Diego AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:;5:5;6:6;7:7;8:8;9:9;10:10;11:11;12:12;13:13,14;14:15;15:16;16:17;17:18;18:19;19:20;20:21;21:22;22:23;23:1,14,24;24:25;25:26,27,28;26:29;27:30;28:31;29:32;30:33;31:34;32:35;33:36;34:37;35:38;36:39;37:40;38:41;39:42;40:43;41:44;42:1,14; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:PDG-REM-BEEP-LEP;10:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP;11:;12:;13:;14:;15:;16:;17:;18:;19:;20:;21:;22:;23:;24:;25:;26:;27:;28:;29:;30:;31:;32:;33:;34:;35:;36:;37:;38:;39:;40:;41:;42:; C1 Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), National Research Council, Verbania Pallanza, Italy. 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Meiofauna have also been used as models to understand fundamental adaptive processes, have contributed to a better understanding of the animal’s Tree of Life, and are believed to be a treasure trove for future genomic studies. To celebrate the diversity of research topics brought to us by the term “meiofauna”, we gathered a multidisciplinary team of 42 ecologists, taxonomists, morphologists, biogeographers, molecular biologists, and scientific disseminators to list 194 fundamental questions in meiofaunal research. Then, through an online survey, 251 scientists, administrators, students, and stakeholders assisted us in reducing this list to 50 top-priority questions. Applied topics related to anthropogenic impact and climate change received the highest scores, whereas questions related to areas in development such as genomics or adaptations, received less attention. Whereas we might not be exploiting meiofauna’s full potential yet, more and more integrative approaches and technological developments will create opportunities to employ these fascinating organisms to answer broad and important questions, despite of their impediments related to their small body size. Meiofauna research agenda should balance amongst investigating general questions, addressing more specialized research topics, and generating primary data on distribution, taxonomy, traits, and DNA sequences. The geographical and taxonomic biases that have historically affected meiofaunal research can be alleviated by promoting international cooperation, open data sharing, and an increase effort in education, taxonomic training, as well as scientific communication. We hope that this will get both researchers and the general public intrigued by those small critters that constantly lurk unseen in front of us. PY 2023 PD SEP SO EcoEvoRxiv PU California Digital Library (CDL) DI 10.32942/X2WP43 ID 96705 ER EF