The nutritional geometry of parental diet

父母饮食的营养几何

• 批准号: DP170102449
• 负责人: Prof Russell Bonduriansky
• 金额: $ 25.96万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-06-30 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP170102449
• 关键词: nutritional; geometry; parental; diet

This project aims to investigate the effects of ancestors’ diet on descendants’ development and performance. Recognition that an individual’s diet can affect its descendants’ features and health influences biology and medicine, but limitations of conventional research methodologies make understanding such effects incomplete. The Nutritional Geometry framework enables researchers to analyse effects of diet composition as complex response surfaces, and has recently been used in research on parental diet effects. Building on this breakthrough, this project intends to analyse the effects of ancestors’ diet, and test hypotheses relevant to evolution, ecology and human health.

本研究旨在探讨祖先的饮食习惯对后代的发育和表现的影响。认识到个人的饮食可以影响其后代的特征和健康影响生物学和医学，但传统的研究方法的局限性使得对这种影响的理解不完整。营养几何框架使研究人员能够分析饮食组成的影响作为复杂的响应面，最近已被用于研究父母的饮食影响。在这一突破的基础上，该项目打算分析祖先饮食的影响，并测试与进化、生态和人类健康有关的假设。