Isolation and Characterization of Proteins in Carbonate Skeletons

该项目将尝试分析有孔虫方解石中的蛋白质，以确定哪些蛋白质是物种特有的。如果这项研究的结果证实了最初的结果，这些蛋白质可能会成为单个物种的“指纹”。如果是这样的话，真正物种的进化可以从化石记录中追踪，而不是使用形态上定义的物种，这些物种实际上可能不是不同的物种。因此，单个物种的化石谱系可以在地质记录中找到。

The project will attempt to analyze the proteins in the calcite of foraminifera in order to identify proteins which are species specific. If the initial results are confirmed by results of this research, the proteins may act as "fingerprints" of individual species. If so, the evolution of true species may be traced in the fossil record rather than using morphologically- defined species which actually may not be different species. Therefore the fossil lineage of individual species may be traced in the geologic record.