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

9505429奥斯汀该奖项是根据国际初级研究员和博士后研究员计划颁发的，该计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外公认的卓越研究中心进行为期3至24个月的研究。该项目的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，并提供了使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件的机会。该奖项的资金支持来自东亚太平洋项目。该奖项将支持克里斯托弗·C·奥斯汀博士与斯蒂芬·唐纳兰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。奥斯汀博士将收集基因数据，以研究夜光鱼在整个地理范围内的定居和遗传分化模式。从整个大洋洲的巴布亚地区到北部的夏威夷群岛和南部的皮特凯恩群岛，都有这种物种。这些数据将被用来解决有关分子和形态进化速度之间的联系以及物种形成速度的控制因素的问题。***

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. ***