International Postdoctoral Fellows Program: Genetic Diversity & Biogeography of a Pacific Island Invader: UsingLizards to Assess Patterns of Colonization & Speciat

9505429 Austin该奖项是国际青年研究员和博士后研究员计划的一部分，它使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外被证明卓越的研究中心进行三到二十四个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。本奖项的财政支持来自东亚太平洋项目。该奖项将支持Christopher C. Austin博士与Stephen Donnellan博士在南澳大利亚阿德莱德的南澳大利亚博物馆进行为期24个月的博士后研究访问。奥斯丁博士将收集遗传数据，以检查整个地理范围内Lipinia noctua的殖民模式和遗传分化。这个物种分布在整个大洋洲的巴布亚地区，北部的夏威夷群岛和南部的皮特凯恩群岛。这些数据将用于解决有关分子和形态进化速率的关联以及物种形成速率的控制因素的问题。＊＊＊

9505429 Austin This award is under the International Junior Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellows Program, which enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad at research centers of proven excellence. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. Financial support for this award is from the East Asia Pacific Program. This award will support a twenty-four-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Christopher C. Austin to work with Dr. Stephen Donnellan at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, South Australia. Dr. Austin will collect genetic data to examine patterns of colonization and genetic differentiation across the entire geographic range of the skink Lipinia noctua. This species occurs from the Papuan region throughout Oceania to the Hawaiian Islands in the north and the Pitcairn Islands to the south. These data will be used to address questions about the association of molecular and morphological evolutionary rates and the controlling factors in rates of speciation. ***