Biochemical and Population Aspects of Bioenergetic Evolution

生物能量进化的生化和人口方面

• 批准号: 9119411
• 负责人: Ward Watt
• 金额: $ 26.6万
• 依托单位: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-02-15 至 1995-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9119411&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biochemical; Population; Aspects; Bioenergetic; Evolution

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.

动物、植物和其他生命形式适应环境压力和变化模式的过程将在个体如何获取和使用能量的背景下进行研究。将使用昆虫模型系统；在理解这一系统方面已经取得了很大的进展，从这一系统中衍生出的一般思想已被证明适用于细菌、甲壳类动物、鱼类和哺乳动物等多种生命形式。能源处理和分配机制中的自然遗传变异将在这些机制如何受到环境变化模式影响的背景下进行研究。这些结果不仅对了解生物如何适应环境具有重要意义，而且对了解家畜、农作物或管理的森林树木在人类农业/经济管理和全球气候变化的特定背景下如何适应环境也有潜在的意义。