OPUS: The ecological basis of coevolutionary history

这个项目的目标是写一本书，总结25年来NSF资助的研究，将探讨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模型研究系统组成的鸟类，羽毛喂养虱子，并在虱子共生细菌。作者特别感兴趣的是自然选择如何在这些群体中影响联合物种形成和多样化的模式。这本书将综合研究人员在过去25年中发表的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的类似演变模式进行评论。拟议的卷将综合的共同进化动力学的最综合的研究之一，到目前为止，从广泛的生态相互作用的工作，长期的进化模式的解释。书中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，首席研究员是该博物馆的副馆长。PI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.