Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment for FY 1997

Gregory M. Erickson本行动资助了1997年NSF与环境有关的生物科学博士后研究奖学金。该奖学金为研究员提供了获得博士学位以外的额外科学培训的机会，并在美国国家科学基金会生物科学理事会支持的任何生物学领域中，在分子、细胞、有机体、种群、群落和/或生态系统层面上，对生物与其环境之间相互作用的基本机制进行创新和富有想象力的研究。每个奖学金支持在赞助实验室进行的研究和培训计划。该奖学金的研究和训练计划的题目是“两栖鱼类的骨骼如何在从水到陆地的进化过程中适应陆地运动”。脊椎动物在陆地上的出现是通过对附肢骨骼进行生物力学修饰而成为可能的。这种变化的本质是通过测试两栖鱼类及其水生姊妹类群骨骼的生物力学特性来确定的。这一结果对于理解骨的形态和功能在进化过程中是如何受到机械需求的调节具有重要意义。

Abstract DBI 9750190 Gregory M. Erickson This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment for 1997. This fellowship provides an opportunity for the Fellow to gain additional scientific training beyond the doctoral degree and to pursue innovative and imaginative into the fundamental mechanisms underlying the interactions between organisms and their environment at the molecular, cellular, organismal, population, community and/or ecosystem level in any area of biology supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation. 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 "How bones of amphibious fish are modified for terrestrial locomotion during evolutionary water-to-land transitions." The emergence of vertebrates onto land was made possible by biomechanical modification of the appendicular skeleton. The nature of such changes is being determined by testing the biomechanical properties of bones from amphibious fish and their aquatic sister taxa. The results are important for understanding how bone form and function are regulated by mechanical demand during evolution.