Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Australian Rainbowfishes

澳大利亚彩虹鱼的比较进化基因组学

• 批准号: DP150102903
• 负责人: Prof Luciano Beheregaray
• 金额: $ 32.15万
• 依托单位: Flinders University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2018-12-04
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150102903
• 关键词: Comparative; Evolutionary; Genomics; Australian; Rainbowfishes

This project aims to use an evolutionarily young and ecologically important fish clade to understand adaptive resilience and to test predictions derived from the 'climatic variability hypothesis' for the major climatic regions of mainland Australia. Correlative surveys along landscapes and mechanistic experimental studies will be integrated to implement a comparative evolutionary genomics framework capable of assessing the genetic basis of adaptation and the evolutionary resilience of populations and lineages. This is expected to clarify climatic and geographic correlates of adaptation across a vast area of Australia and to disentangle responses to environmental change in an emerging model system for adaptation research.

该项目的目的是使用一个进化上年轻的和生态上重要的鱼类分支，以了解适应性的弹性和测试来自“气候变异假说”的主要气候地区的澳大利亚大陆的预测。相关调查沿着景观和机械实验研究将被整合，以实施一个比较进化基因组学框架，能够评估适应的遗传基础和种群和谱系的进化弹性。预计这将澄清澳大利亚广大地区适应的气候和地理相关性，并在一个新兴的适应研究模型系统中理清对环境变化的反应。