US- Argentina Planning Visit: Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics of Cactophilic Drosophila

美国-阿根廷计划访问：嗜果蝇的生态和进化基因组学

• 批准号: 1042510
• 负责人: Therese Markow
• 金额: $ 0.95万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-11-01 至 2011-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1042510&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Argentina; Planning; Visit; Ecological

This award will support two researchers, one senior and one junior, from the U.S. under the direction of Dr. Therese A. Markow, on a planning visit to Argentina to take place in November 2010. The primary goal of this visit is to develop collaborations on Catcophilic Drosophila research between investigators and students at the University of California-San Diego, Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina, Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, and Universidad de Chile in Chile. The planning trip is intended to produce the blueprint for a a PIRE proposal and possibly others to be submitted during the following year. The researchers will compare the biology of two Drosophila-cactus systems that evolved independently, one in North and the other in South America. The research topics to be discussed include the evolutionary genetics of host shifts, reproductive isolation and genetic differentiation (speciation), ecological interactions, and general patterns. This multinational effort will be useful in developing international, broad-based strategies to manage responses to global change.The collaborators will bring complementary skills to the project. The U. S. researchers specialize on the North American system while the researchers from Argentina, Brazil, and Chile have extensive experience with the South American system. The planning meetings will be teleconferenced to the home institutions of all the PIs, thus enabling the participation of a large number of students and postdocs in at least five countries.

该奖项将支持两名研究人员，一名高级和一名初级，来自美国的指导下博士。Markow说，他计划于2010年11月访问阿根廷。 此次访问的主要目的是在加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校、阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯大学、巴西圣保罗大学和智利智利大学的研究人员和学生之间开展嗜Catcophilic果蝇研究的合作。规划之旅的目的是为PIRE提案以及可能在下一年提交的其他提案制定蓝图。研究人员将比较两个独立进化的果蝇-仙人掌系统的生物学，一个在北美，另一个在南美。 将讨论的研究主题包括宿主转移的进化遗传学，生殖隔离和遗传分化（物种形成），生态相互作用和一般模式。这项多国努力将有助于制定基础广泛的国际战略，以管理对全球变化的反应，合作者将为该项目带来互补的技能。联合S.研究人员专门研究北美系统，而来自阿根廷、巴西和智利的研究人员对南美系统有着丰富的经验。规划会议将通过电话向所有主要研究所的所在机构进行，从而使至少五个国家的大量学生和博士后能够参加。