Expanding gene-environment causality in evolutionary genetics

扩展进化遗传学中的基因-环境因果关系

• 批准号: DP160103668
• 负责人: A/Prof Darrell Kemp
• 金额: $ 20.91万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160103668
• 关键词: Expanding; gene; environment; causality; evolutionary

This project aims to investigate how environmental experiences shape phenotypes, engender variance in populations and ultimately contribute to evolution. It targets new discoveries for how environmental effects can multiply throughout ontogeny and/or propagate across generations. Although widely speculated to support new evolutionary paradigms, such knowledge lacks scrutiny according to the formal metric of quantitative genetics. This project seeks to expose guppy pedigrees to unique manipulations and reconcile adaptive evolution across captive and wild populations. The outcome is expected to address knowledge gaps in the life and human sciences and potentially inform goals in primary production and conservation.

该项目旨在研究环境经历如何塑造表型，在种群中产生差异，并最终促进进化。它的目标是发现环境影响如何在个体发育过程中繁殖和/或跨代传播。尽管被广泛推测为支持新的进化范式，但这些知识缺乏根据定量遗传学的正式度量进行审查。该项目旨在将孔雀鱼的血统暴露于独特的操作中，并协调圈养种群和野生种群的适应性进化。预计结果将解决生命科学和人文科学方面的知识差距，并可能为初级生产和保护目标提供信息。