Collaborative Research: Paleozoic echinoderms as model systems for the study of evolutionary modes

合作研究：古生​​代棘皮动物作为研究进化模式的模型系统

• 批准号: 2312211
• 负责人: James Lamsdell
• 金额: $ 28.64万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2312211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Paleozoic; echinoderms; model

Collaborative Research: Paleozoic echinoderms as model systems for the study of evolutionary modes Unraveling the drivers of evolution in the fossil record is critical for understanding how organisms occupy new morphologic, ecologic, and geographic spaces. This information, gleaned from the geologic past across climate perturbations, is vital for understanding and predicting how evolution will operate across the biodiversity and climate crises today. The research team will focus on groups of ancient echinoderms, marine invertebrates (e.g., sea stars) that were globally widespread through Earth’s history. This group is vastly understudied and, as such, analyses conducted on the group will provide critical insight into animal response to Earth systems perturbations. New organismal forms appear through shifts in developmental timing, called heterochrony. What is unclear is how shifts in climate, organism biogeography, and ecology affect heterochronic shifts. This research uses a holistic approach via multiple analyses, addressing changes in ecology, biogeography, and heterochrony through extreme climate events that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago, to explore aspects of organisms’ evolutionary history and long-term consequences.Database, museum, and literature data will be used jointly within phylogenetic frameworks to develop understanding of the evolutionary dynamics (i.e., changes in rates of evolution, heterochrony, biogeography, ecology) of extinct echinoderms. The chief merit of this research is the integration of multiple variables within a phylogenetic context to quantitatively understand broader patterns of evolution through abiotic change on Earth. This project will train the next generation of museum curators, educators, and researchers, and provide open-access information about echinoderms. Training will be conducted through undergraduate summer workshops on museum research techniques. Open access information about the echinoderm clades studied in this project will be published on the Digital Atlas of Ancient Life’s paleontology open access textbook. Echinoderm resources, created through this project and from previous works, will be collated on a WikiProject into one central hub for current and future echinoderm paleobiology researchers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

合作研究：古生​​代棘皮动物作为研究进化模式的模型系统揭示化石记录中进化的驱动因素对于理解生物体如何占据新的形态、生态和地理空间至关重要。这些信息是从过去的地质气候扰动中收集到的，对于理解和预测进化如何在当今的生物多样性和气候危机中发挥作用至关重要。该研究小组将重点研究在地球历史上广泛分布于全球的古代棘皮动物、海洋无脊椎动物（例如海星）。该群体的研究还很不足，因此，对该群体进行的分析将为动物对地球系统扰动的反应提供重要的见解。新的有机体形式通过发育时间的变化而出现，称为异时性。目前尚不清楚气候、生物地理学和生态学的变化如何影响异时性变化。这项研究采用多种分析的整体方法，解决了数亿年前发生的极端气候事件导致的生态学、生物地理学和异时性的变化，以探索生物体进化历史和长期后果的各个方面。数据库、博物馆和文献数据将在系统发育框架内联合使用，以加深对进化动态的理解（即进化速率的变化， 已灭绝棘皮动物的异时性、生物地理学、生态学）。这项研究的主要优点是将多个变量整合到系统发育背景中，以定量地了解地球上非生物变化的更广泛的进化模式。该项目将培训下一代博物馆馆长、教育工作者和研究人员，并提供有关棘皮动物的开放获取信息。培训将通过本科生博物馆研究技术暑期研讨会进行。有关本项目研究的棘皮动物进化枝的开放获取信息将发布在古代生命数字图集的古生物学开放获取教科书中。通过该项目和之前的工作创建的棘皮动物资源将在 WikiProject 上整理为当前和未来棘皮动物古生物学研究人员的一个中心枢纽。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。