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

摘要 DBI 9750137凯瑟琳Kelley 这项行动为1997年国家科学基金会与环境有关的生物科学博士后研究金提供资金。 该奖学金为研究员提供了一个机会，使他们能够在博士学位之外获得额外的科学培训，并在分子，细胞，生物体，种群，由国家科学基金会生物科学理事会支持的任何生物学领域的社区和/或生态系统水平。 每项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。 该研究金的研究和培训计划题为“遗传和父母对反捕食者特征发展的影响”。它的副标题是“实验分析的甲虫着色和化学防御。”“许多昆虫都有化学防御，并以明显的（警戒）颜色向捕食者宣传它们的毒性，但这些特征的种内变异背后的遗传机制在很大程度上是未知的。 发展，数量遗传和实验方法相结合，以衡量遗传和父母的影响，着色和化学防御的水疱甲虫。 这项研究提供了一个机械的理解昆虫警戒和一个新的分析字符集集成的限制。

Abstract DBI 9750137 Katherine C. Kelley 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 "Genetic and parental effects on the development of antipredator characters." It is subtitled "Experimental analyses of blister beetle coloration and chemical defense." Many insects are chemically defended and advertise their noxiousness to predators with conspicuous (aposematic) coloration, but the inheritance mechanisms underlying intraspecific variation in these traits are largely unknown. Developmental, quantitative genetic, and experimental approaches are being combined to measure genetic and parental effects on the coloration and chemical defense of blister beetles. This research provides a mechanistic understanding of insect aposematism and a novel analysis of constraints on character suite integration.