OPUS: Synthesizing research on the adaptable snowbird: hormonal pleiotropy, phenotypic integration, and rapid population divergence

OPUS：适应性雪鸟的综合研究：激素多效性、表型整合和快速种群分化

• 批准号: 1119924
• 负责人: Ellen Ketterson
• 金额: $ 24.11万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-15 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1119924&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: OPUS; Synthesizing; research; adaptable; snowbird

This award will synthesize research conducted over 40 years on a songbird, the dark-eyed junco. The junco has been an important research subject in three areas: the origin of new species, the role of the environment in timing reproduction, and the role of testosterone in adaptive behavior and physiology. The award will lead to three products. The first is a book that will describe the outcomes of research on the junco, including new knowledge about its migration, its reproduction, its historical response to glacial retreat, its response to climate change and the rise of cities, and finally its role as a model system for how testosterone mediates numerous behavioral and physiological attributes. The second product will be a web-based data archive, and the third will be a series of media projects, including a documentary film and classroom videos. Together, these products will help to promote public understanding of science, and will contribute to ongoing research in ecology and evolution of birds and other organisms. The book, which will be aimed at a professional audience, will synthesize four decades of research. The web-based archive will allow other researchers to take advantage of extensive data sets on physiology and behavior. The media projects will convey key findings to diverse audiences including public consumers of scientific research, young and old, in the classroom, in museums, and on public television. Together, the resulting synthesis will be of strong interest to students, educators, fellow scientists, and the public.

该奖项将综合40多年来对一种鸣禽黑眼朱古力的研究。junco一直是三个领域的重要研究课题：新物种的起源，环境在定时繁殖中的作用，以及睾酮在适应行为和生理学中的作用。 该奖项将产生三个产品。第一本书将描述关于junco的研究成果，包括关于其迁移的新知识，它的繁殖，它对冰川退缩的历史反应，它对气候变化和城市崛起的反应，最后它作为睾丸激素如何介导众多行为和生理属性的模型系统的作用。第二个产品将是基于网络的数据档案，第三个产品将是一系列媒体项目，包括一部纪录片和课堂录像。这些产品将有助于促进公众对科学的理解，并将有助于正在进行的鸟类和其他生物的生态学和进化研究。 这本书将面向专业读者，将综合四十年的研究成果。 基于网络的档案将允许其他研究人员利用生理学和行为的广泛数据集。 媒体项目将向不同的受众传达主要的研究结果，包括科学研究的公众消费者，年轻人和老年人，在课堂上，博物馆和公共电视上。总之，由此产生的综合将是学生，教育工作者，科学家同行和公众的强烈兴趣。