Symposium on Ecological Developmental Biology; January 6 - 10, 2002, Anaheim, California

生态发育生物学研讨会；

• 批准号: 0091725
• 负责人: Scott Gilbert
• 金额: $ 0.7万
• 依托单位: Swarthmore College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0091725&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symposium; Ecological; Developmental; Biology; January

0091725Gilbert The Division of Developmental and Cell Biology and the Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology will convene a Symposium on Ecological Developmental Biology: Developmental Biology Meets the Real World. The symposium would be conducted during the annual meeting of that society on January 6-10, 2002, in Anaheim, California. The goal of this symposium is to resurrect interest in an important area of developmental biology that has been ignored by developmental biologists until very recently: ecological developmental biology. This field includes such diverse areas as larval ecology, environmental sex determination, predator-induced polyphenisms, dietary polyphenisms, social insect caste determination, egg ecology, proximate causation for phenotypic plasticity, and teratogenesis. The work in the intersection of developmental biology and ecology is important for several reasons. First, conservation biology needs to know about the survival and development of the embryonic and larval stages of development as much as it does about the adult stage. (This point was made very clear when it was shown that turtle conservation biology programs had been incubating embryos at temperatures that only produced only one sex of offspring). Second, environmental chemicals which we had been thought harmless (at least to adults) may be dangerous to the developmental stages of organisms and may threaten the fertility of adults. Third, the discipline of developmental biology has centered around model systems that had been selected for their independence from environmental conditions. This has supported the genetic approach to development and has fostered the thinking that all development is regulated from inside the egg (or even from inside the nucleus). The studies of ecological developmental biology show how important the environment is to the production of particular phenotypes. Fourth, we think that in the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology, the ecological component is necessary. If the first SICB symposium on evolutionary developmental biology focused on the phylogenetic, non-adaptive and macroevolutionary questions of "evo-devo," then this symposium would highlight the ecological, adaptive, and microevolutionary issues of evolutionary developmental biology.

0091725Gilbert综合与比较生物学学会的发育与细胞生物学部和进化发育生物学部将召开一次生态发育生物学研讨会：发育生物学与真实的世界相遇。该专题讨论会将于2002年1月6日至10日在加州的阿纳海姆举行的该学会年会期间举行。 本次研讨会的目的是恢复兴趣的发育生物学的一个重要领域，一直被忽视的发育生物学家，直到最近：生态发育生物学。这一领域包括幼虫生态学、环境性别决定、捕食者诱导的多型性、食性多型性、社会性昆虫种姓决定、卵生态学、表型可塑性的近因性和畸形发生等不同领域。发育生物学和生态学交叉领域的工作之所以重要，有几个原因。首先，保护生物学需要了解胚胎和幼虫发育阶段的生存和发育，就像了解成虫阶段一样。(This当海龟保护生物学项目在只能产生一种性别后代的温度下孵化胚胎时，这一点就很清楚了。第二，我们一直认为无害（至少对成年人无害）的环境化学品可能对生物体的发育阶段有危险，并可能威胁成年人的生育能力。第三，发育生物学学科的中心是模型系统，这些系统是根据其独立于环境条件而选择的。这支持了发育的遗传学方法，并培养了所有发育都是从卵子内部（甚至从细胞核内部）调节的思想。生态发育生物学的研究表明，环境对特定表型的产生是多么重要。 第四，我们认为，在进化发育生物学的新兴领域，生态成分是必要的。如果说第一届SICB进化发育生物学研讨会聚焦于进化发育生物学的系统发育、非适应性和宏观进化问题，那么本次研讨会将突出进化发育生物学的生态学、适应性和微观进化问题。