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.