Biochemical and Population Aspects of Bioenergetic Evolution

动物、植物和其他生命形式 适应环境压力和变化的模式将是 研究的背景是个人如何获取和使用能源。 将使用昆虫模型系统;已经取得了很大进展 在理解这个系统，并得出一般的想法， 已经被证明适用于各种各样的生命形式， 细菌甲壳类鱼类和哺乳动物 天然遗传 能量加工和分配机制的变化 将在这些机制是如何 受到环境变化模式的影响。 结果将 不仅对于从根本上理解 生物适应环境，但也可能 了解家畜、农作物、或 森林树木这样做，在特定的背景下， 农业/经济管理和全球气候变化。

The processes by which animals, plants, and other life forms adapt to patterns of environmental stress and variability will be studied in the context of how individuals acquire and use energy. An insect model system will be used; much progress has already been made in understanding this system, and general ideas derived from it have been shown to apply to life forms as diverse as bacteria, crustaceans, fish, and mammals. Natural genetic variation in the mechanisms of energy processing and allocation will be studied in the context of how these mechanisms are impacted by patterns of environmental change. The results will have importance not only for fundamental understanding of how living beings adapt to their environments, but potentially also for understanding how domestic animals, crop plants, or managed forest trees do so in the specific context of human agricultural/economic management and global climate change.