Major Evolutionary Events in Reptiles (Including Birds)

爬行动物（包括鸟类）的主要进化事件

• 批准号: DP0344307
• 负责人: Prof Michael Lee
• 金额: $ 44.53万
• 依托单位: The University of Adelaide
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2003-12-02 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0344307
• 关键词: Major; Evolutionary; Events; Reptiles; Including

Evolutionary patterns among the major groups of reptiles (including birds) will be resolved using new information from multiple (>6) nuclear genes combined with existing phenotypic and (mainly mitochondrial) genetic traits. This will simultaneously resolve several high-profile questions, such as: the origin and affinities of turtles, snakes and flightless birds; and the prevalence of phenotypic convergence generated by paedomorphosis and fossoriality. The multiple genetic and phenotypic data sets will also reveal any broad links between genetic and phenotypic evolution (e.g. rate correlations), and the differing abilities of nuclear genes, mitochondrial genes, and phenotypic traits to track (and thus reflect) deep evolutionary branchings.

主要的爬行动物（包括鸟类）之间的进化模式将使用来自多个（> 6）核基因的新信息与现有表型和（主要是线粒体）遗传性状结合在一起。 这将同时解决几个备受瞩目的问题，例如：乌龟，蛇和无飞鸟的起源和亲和力；以及由拟态性和肌电性产生的表型收敛的流行率。 多种遗传和表型数据集还将揭示遗传和表型进化（例如速率相关）与核基因，线粒体基因以及表型性状的不同能力之间的任何广泛联系，以跟踪（并因此反映）深层进化分支。