Proteomic profiles of benthopelagic deep-sea copepods

In this study we used in parallel morphological, genetic, and proteomic characteristics of specimens of calanoid copepods from the abyssal South Atlantic to test if proteomic fingerprinting by matrix-assisted can accelerate estimating biodiversity. We cross-validated the respective molecular discrimination methods with morphological identifications to establish COI and proteomic reference libraries. This data set includes all information on MALDI-TOF.