Early environmental effects on phenotypic development and evolution

早期环境对表型发育和进化的影响

• 批准号: DE150101774
• 负责人: A/Prof Daniel Noble
• 金额: $ 25.66万
• 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 Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-04-30 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE150101774
• 关键词: Early; environmental; effects; phenotypic; development

Early developmental environments can profoundly influence the survival and reproductive success of organisms, including humans. The project aims to use an exceptional model lizard system to test a new theory about how personality and learning are influenced through the manipulation of offspring environment and how this affects lifetime fitness. Understanding these effects is important for predicting the responses to selection imposed by changing environments, the success of re-introduction programs for threatened species, and for understanding the long-term viability of populations. This project aims to merge theoretical developments in life history theory and evolutionary biology and contribute important empirical advances to a new research field.

早期的发育环境可以深刻地影响包括人类在内的生物体的生存和繁殖成功。该项目旨在使用一个特殊的模型蜥蜴系统来测试一个新的理论，即人格和学习如何通过操纵后代环境而受到影响，以及这如何影响终身健康。了解这些影响是重要的，预测的反应，由不断变化的环境中施加的选择，成功的重新引入计划的受威胁的物种，并了解人口的长期生存能力。该项目旨在融合生活史理论和进化生物学的理论发展，并为新的研究领域提供重要的经验进展。