Phenotypic selection resulting from social interactions

社会互动导致的表型选择

• 批准号: 1027251
• 负责人: Edmund Brodie
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1027251&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Phenotypic; selection; resulting; social; interactions

All organisms interact with members of their own species, and such interactions can directly and indirectly influence genetics, behavior and evolution. Biologists have only recently begun to consider how social partners change the rules of evolution and alter the way that selection shapes biodiversity. This project will follow an insect model system in the wild, to examine how differences in social contexts translate into differences in classically understood selection. The work includes direct behavioral observation, as well as the development of infrared video monitoring systems to record data remotely. Fieldwork will be conducted at the Mountain Lake Biological Station so the project interfaces with the highly successful MLBS-Research Experience for Undergraduate program to provide training opportunities for new scientists, as well as developing mentoring skills for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The results of this work will determine how import social context and social networks are to the process of behavioral evolution.

所有生物都与自己物种的成员相互作用，这种相互作用可以直接或间接地影响遗传，行为和进化。生物学家直到最近才开始考虑社会伙伴如何改变进化规则，改变选择塑造生物多样性的方式。这个项目将遵循野生昆虫模型系统，研究社会环境的差异如何转化为经典理解的选择差异。这项工作包括直接的行为观察，以及红外视频监控系统的开发，以远程记录数据。实地考察将在山湖生物站进行，因此该项目与非常成功的MLBS-本科生研究经验项目相结合，为新科学家提供培训机会，并为研究生和博士后研究员培养指导技能。这项工作的结果将确定如何进口社会背景和社交网络的行为进化过程。