AIT-CCNAA Cooperative Research: Altitudinal Variation in Metabolic Physiology of Brown Frogs, Rana sauteri

这是2。马萨诸塞州大学Warren Burggren博士、斯克兰顿大学Daniel Townsend博士和姚林教授的年度合作研究项目。宋，国立台湾大学，美国在台协会资助。中国科学院科学合作计划。本研究计划研究>在近缘种间生殖隔离中的潜在生理作用。他们计划以台湾三个不同海拔地区的褐蛙>Rana> >sauteri>为研究对象，研究生理在生殖隔离中的潜在作用，以阐明物种形成与生殖隔离机制之间的关系。这一建议解决了生态学和进化生物学中的一个重要问题。这些发现对进化理论具有重要意义，并能促进我们对物种形成的一般机制的理解。>实验设计简单，所鉴定的物种是唯一适合作为本研究动物模型的物种。台湾是进行这项研究的绝佳地点，因为这里是少数几个棕蛙分布在如此大的区域和不同海拔的地方之一。

This is a two.year collaborative research project between Dr. Warren Burggren, University of Massachusetts, Dr. Daniel Townsend, University of Scranton and Professor Lin Yao.Sung, National Taiwan University supported by the AIT.CCNAA Cooperative Science Program. This proposal plans to study the potential role of physiology in >reproductive isolation between closely related species. They plan to use brown frogs, >Rana> >sauteri>, collected from three distinct altitudes in Taiwan to examine the potential role of physiology in reproductive isolation to elucidate the relationship between speciation and reproductive isolating mechanisms. This proposal addresses an important problem in ecology and evolutionary biology. The findings can have significant implications in evolutionary theory and can advance our understanding of general mechanisms of speciation. The >experimental design is simple and the species identified is uniquely appropriate to serve as an animal model for this study. Taiwan is an excellent site for this study, since this is one of the few places where brown frogs are found distributed over such a large area and at different altitudes.