Predictability in evolution: From behaviour to genome

这个项目旨在确定进化是否主要是不可预测的和随机的，或者是可预测的和受某些路径限制的。通过自然实验，数百万年前，为了应对气候变化，食木蟑螂进化成穴居土壤的蟑螂，这个项目将确定这些生物的基因组是如何应对的。这将显示相同的分子变化是否在复杂性状的进化中被重复使用，包括洞穴建设。这将有助于理解进化在分子水平上是如何可预测的，并为基因组如何响应长期气候变化提供见解。

This project aims to determine whether evolution is primarily unpredictable and stochastic, or predictable and constrained along certain pathways. By using a natural experiment that caused wood-feeding cockroaches to evolve into soil-burrowing cockroaches in response to climate change millions of years ago, this project will determine how the genomes of these organisms responded. This will show whether the same molecular changes are repeatedly used in the evolution of complex traits, including burrow construction. This will contribute to the understanding of how predictable evolution is at the molecular level, and provide insights into how genomes change in response to prolonged climate change.