DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Form, function, and modularity in the modern bat skull: understanding the evolution of phenotypic complexity

论文研究:现代蝙蝠头骨的形式、功能和模块化:了解表型复杂性的演变

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Bats are one of the most species-rich groups of modern mammals, and are particularly known for their ecological diversity. Bats fill numerous ecological niches worldwide, performing a variety of ecosystem functions and services. Evolutionary biologists often study ecological diversity in conjunction with morphology, as physical traits can be closely tied to performance and function. The bat skull has a highly complex shape that encodes information about ecological interactions. Multiple selective pressures influence the complex form of a modern bat skull, and by studying its morphological evolution, this research will reveal the ecological context of those evolutionary processes. This research will synthesize museum collections with cutting-edge imaging technology and shape analyses to model the evolution of a highly complex biological structure. The findings will be integrated into outreach programs in partnership with educational nonprofits and natural history museums. Both morphological and ecological diversity are critical components of biodiversity, and by emphasizing both facets in public education, the researchers will stress the importance of both ecological and evolutionary context in understanding ecosystem functions and services.To accomplish these goals, the researchers will produce high-resolution X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) scans of a wide range of modern bat skulls. MicroCT scanning capture much of the complexity of biological structures that is lost with traditional, simple measurements. The data can be used for multidimensional analyses of trait evolution and physical reproductions. After scanning, bat skulls will be digitized for analysis using landmark-based geometric morphometrics, a method for quantifying shape variation. The researchers will then quantify the amount of morphological diversity present among modern bat skulls, and will model rates of shape evolution across the bat phylogenetic tree. Modules of the skull, which may be optimized for different functions like feeding, echolocation, and hearing, will be analyzed independently, to test the hypothesis that different ecological pressures interact with each other to govern skull shape evolution. Ultimately, these data will be used to test the links among morphological diversity, ecological function, and evolutionary diversification across modern bats.
蝙蝠是现代哺乳动物中物种最丰富的群体之一,以其生态多样性而闻名。蝙蝠填补了世界各地的许多生态位,执行各种生态系统功能和服务。进化生物学家经常结合形态学来研究生态多样性,因为身体特征与性能和功能密切相关。蝙蝠头骨有一个高度复杂的形状,编码有关生态相互作用的信息。多种选择压力影响了现代蝙蝠头骨的复杂形状,通过研究其形态进化,这项研究将揭示这些进化过程的生态背景。这项研究将综合博物馆收藏与尖端的成像技术和形状分析,以模拟高度复杂的生物结构的演变。研究结果将与教育非营利组织和自然历史博物馆合作纳入外展计划。形态和生态多样性都是生物多样性的重要组成部分,通过在公共教育中强调这两个方面,研究人员将强调生态和进化背景在理解生态系统功能和服务方面的重要性。为了实现这些目标,研究人员将对各种现代蝙蝠头骨进行高分辨率X射线计算机微断层扫描(microCT)。MicroCT扫描捕获了传统简单测量所丢失的生物结构的大部分复杂性。这些数据可用于性状进化和物理繁殖的多维分析。扫描后,蝙蝠头骨将被数字化,用于使用基于地标的几何形态测量学进行分析,这是一种量化形状变化的方法。然后,研究人员将量化现代蝙蝠头骨中存在的形态多样性的数量,并将在蝙蝠系统发育树中模拟形状进化的速率。头骨的模块,这可能是优化不同的功能,如喂养,回声定位和听力,将被独立分析,以测试不同的生态压力相互作用,以管理头骨形状进化的假设。最终,这些数据将用于测试现代蝙蝠的形态多样性,生态功能和进化多样性之间的联系。

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Collaborative Research: From demography to diversification: population-level drivers of phylogenetic speciation dynamics across squamate reptiles
合作研究:从人口统计学到多样化:有鳞爬行动物系统发育物种形成动态的种群水平驱动因素
  • 批准号:
    1754398
  • 财政年份:
    2018
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    $ 1.97万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D
数字化 TCN:合作研究:oVert:3D 脊椎动物多样性的开放探索
  • 批准号:
    1701713
  • 财政年份:
    2017
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    $ 1.97万
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    Standard Grant
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: A phylogenomic window into trophic niche evolution in frogs
论文研究:青蛙营养生态位进化的系统发育窗口
  • 批准号:
    1701459
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    2017
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    $ 1.97万
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    Standard Grant
A macroevolutionary framework to study the assembly of continental biotas
研究大陆生物群组合的宏观进化框架
  • 批准号:
    1256330
  • 财政年份:
    2013
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    $ 1.97万
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    Continuing Grant
NSF East Asia Summer Institutes for US Graduate Students
美国研究生 NSF 东亚暑期学院
  • 批准号:
    0413351
  • 财政年份:
    2004
  • 资助金额:
    $ 1.97万
  • 项目类别:
    Fellowship Award

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