Symposium on Maternal Effects as Adaptations, St. Louis, Missouri

孕产妇影响适应研讨会，密苏里州圣路易斯

• 批准号: 9622552
• 负责人: Timothy Mousseau
• 金额: $ 0.6万
• 依托单位: University of South Carolina at Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-06-15 至 1997-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9622552&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symposium; Maternal; Effects; Adaptations; St.

9622552 Mousseau The first symposium on Maternal Effects as Adaptations will be held during the 1996 Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) meetings at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, June 19-23, 1996. Approximately 20 invited participants will present recent and current results concerning the evolution of maternal effects in natural populations during the symposium, contributed paper session, and roundtable discussion. Funds from NSF will be used to provide partial support for travel costs of invited speakers and for a partial graduate student stipend to help with editorial chores associated with a proceedings volume to be published by Oxford University Press in 1997. Participants were chosen to provide a broad coverage of this nascent field; topics include theoretical considerations, quantitative genetic estimation, and the importance of maternal effects to the evolution of life histories, behavior, and population dynamics in a wide variety of plants and animals. Although largely ignored in the past, maternal effects are receiving growing attention by evolutionary biologists as a direct consequence of the realization that maternal effects are very commonly observed in nature, and may often represent a form of "trans-generational phenotypic plasticity." The incorporation of quantitative genetic designs in many evolutionary studies has permitted the decomposition of phenotypic variation into components due to genotype, environment and parental environmental influences. When sought, maternal effects are frequently observed. For example, maternal effects, many of which appear to serve an adaptive function, have been reported in plants, birds, lizards, insects, amphibians, fish, and mammals. The objective of this symposium is to assemble a group of prominent biologists to unify conceptual and empirical advances concerning maternal effects in nature. It is believed that such a gathering can at once synthesize the current state of knowledge and identify particular areas for fu ture investigation.

9622552穆索 第一次关于母体效应作为适应的专题讨论会将于1996年6月19日至23日在密苏里州圣路易斯的华盛顿大学举行的1996年进化研究学会会议期间举行。 大约20名受邀与会者将在专题讨论会、投稿会议和圆桌讨论会期间介绍有关自然人群中孕产妇影响演变的最新和最新结果。 国家科学基金会的资金将用于支付应邀演讲者的部分旅费和研究生的部分津贴，以帮助从事与牛津大学出版社1997年出版的会议记录卷有关的编辑工作。 选择参与者是为了提供这一新生领域的广泛覆盖;主题包括理论考虑，定量遗传估计，以及母性效应对各种植物和动物的生活史，行为和种群动态进化的重要性。虽然在很大程度上被忽视在过去，母性效应越来越受到进化生物学家的关注，作为一个直接的结果，认识到母性效应是非常常见的自然观察，并可能经常代表一种形式的“跨代表型可塑性。“在许多进化研究中引入定量遗传设计，使得表型变异可以分解为基因型、环境和亲本环境影响的组成部分。在寻求时，经常观察到母体效应。例如，据报告，植物、鸟类、蜥蜴、昆虫、两栖动物、鱼类和哺乳动物都有母体效应，其中许多似乎起着适应性作用。 本次研讨会的目的是聚集一群杰出的生物学家，统一概念和经验的进展有关母性的影响，在自然界。 人们相信，这样的一次收集可以立即综合目前的知识状况，并确定未来研究的特定领域。