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

摘要DBI 9750137凯瑟琳·C·凯利这一行动资助了美国国家科学基金会1997年与环境相关的生物科学博士后研究奖学金。这一奖学金为研究员提供了一个在博士学位之外获得额外科学培训的机会，并在任何生物领域的分子、细胞、组织、种群、社区和/或生态系统层面上以创新和富有想象力的方式探索生物体与其环境之间相互作用的基本机制，这一领域得到了国家科学基金会生物科学局的支持。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“基因和父母对反捕食者特征发育的影响”。它的副标题是“大疱虫着色和化学防御的实验分析”。许多昆虫受到化学防御，并以明显的(无意义的)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尚不清楚。发育、数量遗传和实验方法正在结合起来，以衡量遗传和亲本对大疱性甲虫着色和化学防御的影响。这项研究提供了对昆虫无融合生殖的机制的理解，并对特征集整合的限制因素进行了新的分析。

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.