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

这是一个为期两年的合作研究项目 沃伦·伯格伦博士， 马萨诸塞州，丹尼尔汤森博士， 斯克兰顿和林耀教授。宋，国家 台湾大学由AIT.CCNAA支持 合作科学计划。 该提案计划 研究生理学在 >生殖隔离密切相关 物种 他们计划使用棕色青蛙，>蛙> >sauteri>， 从台湾三个不同的海拔高度采集 来研究生理学在 生殖隔离来阐明 物种形成和生殖隔离之间 机制等 这一建议涉及一个重要的 生态学和进化生物学的问题。 的 这些发现可能对 进化理论，并可以促进我们的理解 物种形成的一般机制。 的 >实验设计简单， 唯一适合作为 本研究的动物模型。 台湾是一个优秀的 因为这是为数不多的 棕色青蛙分布在 如此大的面积和不同的海拔高度。

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.