Integrating morphology, fossils and molecules to evaluate major evolutionary events

最近的进展提供了丰富的分子数据，与建立遗传学和研究进化过程。然而，形态学仍然是重建生物如何随着时间的推移而变化和进化的基础。事实上，它通常是唯一一种由化石产生的数据。然而，基因组和表型数据之间存在很大的差距，限制了我们使用任何一种来评估进化假说的能力。例如，形态学的哪些方面与分子数据一致，可以用来可靠地重建主要的进化事件？基因和基因组复制事件等遗传创新是否与形态创新、整合或辐射相匹配？该项目旨在通过整理和整合来自生命之树的遗传，形态和形态测量数据集来解决这些悬而未决的问题。合并后的数据集将不仅提供一个工具包，以更好地重建形态学的同源性，但也更好地评估的性质和进化过程的克里思。

Recent advances have provided a wealth of molecular data with which to build phylogenies and study evolutionary processes. Morphology, however, remains fundamental for reconstructing how organisms have changed and evolved through time. Indeed, it is usually the only kind of data yielded by fossils. However, a large gap exists between genomic and phenomic data limiting our ability to use either to evaluate evolutionary hypotheses. For example, which aspects of morphology are in accordance with molecular data and can be used to reliably reconstruct major evolutionary events? Do genetic innovations such as gene and genome duplication events match morphological innovation, integration or radiation? This project aims to address these outstanding questions by collating and integrating genetic, morphological, and morphometric datasets from across the tree of life. The combined datasets will not only provide a tool kit with which to better reconstruct morphological phylogenies but also to better evaluate the nature and tempo of evolutionary processes.