Collaborative Research: Phylogenetic Analysis of Hawaiian Drosophilidae: A Multidisciplinary Approach

一个多世纪以来，9707869只果蝇(果蝇科)被用作探索生物和环境科学中的重大问题的模式系统。夏威夷果蝇科是一个由大约1000个物种组成的群体，它代表了创始人效应物种形成和海洋岛屿适应性辐射的主要例子，但除了大约100个物种组成的带翅膀的集群外，它们的分类和系统学鲜为人知。在这个合作项目中，将回顾夏威夷果蝇的系统生物学，并重建强大的系统发育。这项工作将包括野外收集、物种描述、培养建立以及用于系统发育分析的形态、分子和行为特征的收集。由此产生的分析预计将是决定性的，并支持未来对这些苍蝇的发育和行为途径的分析。

9707869 KAMBYSELLIS Fruit flies (family Drosophilidae) have been used for more than a century as model systems to explore major issues in biological and environmental sciences. The Hawaiian Drosophilidae, an assemblage of about a thousand species, represent the premier example of founder-effect speciation and adaptive radiation on oceanic islands, but except for the picture-winged cluster of about 100 species, their taxonomy and systematics are poorly known. In this collaborative project, the systematic biology of the Hawaiian drosophilids will be reviewed, and a robust phylogeny reconstructed. The work will include field collections, descriptions of species, establishment of cultures, and collections of morphological, molecular and behavioral characters for phylogenetic analysis. The resulting analysis is expected to be definitive, and to support future analyses of developmental and behavioral pathways in these flies.