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DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Experimental Evolution in an RNA Bacteriophage

论文研究：RNA 噬菌体的实验进化

基本信息

批准号：
0308821
负责人：
H. Allen Orr
金额：
$ 1.02万
依托单位：
University of Rochester
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2003-06-01 至 2005-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0308821&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
DISSERTATION RESEARCH Experimental Evolution RNA

项目摘要

A richer understanding of how populations adapt to new environments is necessary to answer several important questions in the genetics of adaptation. Unfortunately, the data necessary to further this work are difficult to come by in natural populations; for example, there are only a handful of cases in which we can identify an adaptive substitution. In microbial experimental evolution systems, however, data on adaptive evolution are much more easily obtained. In the bacteriophage system we are using, for example, the identity, chronology, and fitness effects of adaptive substitutions are all known. In my dissertation work, I am adapting several lines of an RNA bacteriophage to a new environment and studying the nucleotide substitutions. Here, I propose to extend this work with two new projects. The first is directly related to my dissertation research: I would like to directly measure the fitness effects of each adaptive substitution by measuring the growth rate of each phage genotype. The second project asks a novel question about adaptation: is evolution constrained by sequential epistasis, i.e., is the identity of late substitutions dependent on the identity of early substitutions? Together, these projects will shed much needed light on the genetics of adaptation.

为了回答适应遗传学中的几个重要问题，对种群如何适应新环境有更深入的了解是必要的。不幸的是，在自然种群中很难获得进一步开展这项工作所需的数据；例如，只有少数情况下我们可以识别适应性替代。然而，在微生物实验进化系统中，适应性进化的数据更容易获得。例如，在我们正在使用的噬菌体系统中，适应性替代的身份、时间顺序和适应性效应都是已知的。在我的论文工作中，我正在对RNA噬菌体的几行进行适应新环境的研究，并研究核苷酸取代。在此，我提议以两个新项目来扩展这项工作。第一个与我的论文研究直接相关：我想通过测量每个噬菌体基因型的生长速率来直接测量每个适应性替代的适应度效应。第二个项目提出了一个关于适应的新问题：进化是否受到顺序上位性的约束，即，晚期替代的身份是否依赖于早期替代的身份？总之，这些项目将为研究适应的遗传学提供急需的线索。