Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2000

这一行动资助了美国国家科学基金会2000年生物信息学博士后研究奖学金。该研究和培训计划是在动物行为领域，名为“共同天堂翠鸟复合体中的信号进化和物种形成”。交配信号的变化如何导致新物种的形成，在生物学上仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。拟议的研究通过对天堂翠鸟(T.galatea)种群的研究来解决这个问题。这些种群表现出不同的羽毛特征，可能代表了物种形成的早期阶段。利用地理信息系统、分子遗传学和光谱仪，这项研究将确定环境条件的差异如何通过诱导种群间羽毛性状的变化而导致特定种群的生殖隔离，进而导致物种形成。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for 2000.The research and training plan is in the area of Animal Behavior and is entitled "Signal Evolution and Speciation in the Common Paradise Kingfisher Complex". The means by which changes in mating signals lead to the formation of new species remain an unresolved issue in biology. The proposed research addresses this question via study of populations of the paradise kingfisher (T.galatea). These populations exhibit different plumage traits and may represent early stages of speciation. Using Geographic Information System, molecular genetics, and spectrographs, this study will determine how differences in environmental conditions, through induction of changes in plumage traits between populations, leads to reproductive isolation of a given population and, in turn, speciation.