Ancestral state reconstruction and the evolution of Australian marsupials

祖先国家的重建和澳大利亚有袋动物的进化

• 批准号: DP220103234
• 负责人: Prof Matthew Phillips
• 金额: $ 34.19万
• 依托单位: Queensland University of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2025-05-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP220103234
• 关键词: Ancestral; state; reconstruction; evolution; Australian

This project aims to investigate the diversification and evolvability of Australian marsupials, by enabling genomes, ecology and 3D skeletal shape to synergistically inform evolutionary inference. This project expects to generate new knowledge of the processes that have promoted and maintained marsupial biodiversity, by tracing their evolution across a fossil gap that spans half of their history. Expected outcomes of this project include improved methods for merging fossils into the tree of life and for reconstructing the ecology and morphology of ancestors on phylogenetic trees. This should provide significant benefits, such as a coherent evolutionary context for informing research on marsupial biology, ecology and conservation.

该项目旨在研究澳大利亚有袋动物的多样性和进化性，通过使基因组、生态学和3D骨骼形状协同作用，为进化推断提供信息。该项目希望通过跨越跨越有袋动物历史一半的化石间隙来追踪它们的进化，从而产生促进和维持有袋动物生物多样性过程的新知识。该项目的预期成果包括改进将化石合并到生命树中的方法，以及在系统发育树上重建祖先的生态学和形态学。这应该会带来重大的好处，例如为有袋动物生物学、生态学和保护研究提供一个连贯的进化背景。