OPUS: The ecological basis of coevolutionary history

这个项目的目标是写一本书，总结NSF资助的25年来的研究，探索自然选择和其他微观进化(短期)力量对宏观进化(长期)模式的影响。这本书将主要集中在一个由鸟类、食羽虱子和虱子中的共生细菌组成的模型研究系统上。作者特别感兴趣的是，这些群体之间的自然选择如何影响联合物种形成和多样化的模式。这本书将综合过去25年来研究人员发表的50多篇论文的结果。它将包括根据最近的研究对数据进行重新分析，并对一系列其他系统中类似的进化模式进行评论。拟议的卷将综合迄今为止对共同进化动力学最综合的研究之一，范围从生态相互作用的广泛工作到对长期进化模式的解释。该书的主要结论和有趣的例子将与犹他州自然历史博物馆合作，传播给犹他州K-12教师和学生，那里的首席调查员是兼职馆长。PIS还将创建一个新的“教学工具箱”-并举办相关的研讨会-关于宿主-寄生虫的共同进化。

The goal of this project is to write a book summarizing 25 years of NSF-funded research, that will explore the influence of natural selection and other micro-evolutionary (short term) forces on macro-evolutionary (longer term) patterns. The book will focus largely on a model study system consisting of birds, feather-feeding lice, and symbiotic bacteria in the lice. The authors are particularly interested in how natural selection acting among these groups influences patterns of joint speciation and diversification. The book will synthesize results from over 50 papers published by the investigators over the past 25 years. It will include re-analyses of data in light of more recent studies and comment on a similar evolutionary patterns in a range of other systems. The proposed volume will synthesize one of the most integrative studies of co-evolutionary dynamics, to date, ranging from extensive work on ecological interactions to the explanation of long-term evolutionary patterns. Major conclusions and fun examples from the book will be disseminated to Utah K-12 teachers and students in collaboration with the Utah Museum of Natural History, where the lead investigator is an adjunct curator. The PIs will also create a new "teaching toolbox" - and conduct associated workshops - concerning host-parasite co-evolution.