NSF/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Molecular Evolution for FY 1997

DBI 9750079 John Huelsenbeck这一行动为美国国家科学基金会/阿尔弗雷德·P·斯隆1997年分子进化博士后研究奖学金提供了资金。这些奖学金支持在有机体进化变化和适应的框架内，在分子水平上对生物模式和过程进行理论、比较、计算和/或实验分析的研究。这些研究还包括使用分子数据来解决更广泛的进化问题。每个研究金资助一项研究和培训计划，该计划将在一个赞助实验室进行。该奖学金的研究和培训计划名为“在系统发育背景下测试分支发生的模型”。系统发育树(描绘物种系谱关系的图表)可以用来研究物种形成和灭绝的过程。这项研究的重点是如何从活的和化石的双壳类系统发育树中估计物种形成和灭绝的速度。

Abstract DBI 9750079 John Huelsenbeck This action funds an NSF/Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Molecular Evolution for 1997. These fellowships support studies involving the theoretical, comparative, computational, and/or experimental analyses of biological patterns and processes at the molecular level within the framework of organismic evolutionary change and adaptation. These studies also include the use of molecular data to address broader evolutionary questions. Each fellowship supports a research and training plan to be carried out in a sponsoring laboratory. The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Testing Models of Cladogenesis in a Phylogenetic Context." Phylogenetic trees (diagrams depicting the genealogical relationships of species) can be used to examine the process of speciation and extinction. This research focuses on how speciation and extinction rates can be estimated from phylogenetic trees of living and fossil bivalves.