The origin and maintenance of individual variation in burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides

埋葬甲虫 Nicrophorus vespilloides 个体变异的起源和维持

• 批准号: 1943273
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1943273
• 关键词: origin; maintenance; individual; variation; burying

My project explores how social evolution drives variation. Social interactions are widely regarded as a major driver of evolutionary change, notably the social interactions between parents and offspring. My project focuses on variation within the family, analysing how differential patterns of parental care influence morphological variation within a brood. I have been using both wild populations, and experimentally evolving populations of the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides as a model organism to address this question.

我的项目探索了社会进化如何驱动变异。社会互动被广泛认为是进化变化的主要驱动力，特别是父母和后代之间的社会互动。我的项目侧重于家庭内部的变异，分析不同的父母照料模式如何影响一窝幼崽的形态变异。我一直在使用野生种群和实验进化的埋葬甲虫种群作为模式生物来解决这个问题。

项目成果

The social environment and the evolution of morphology in the burying beetle,

埋葬甲虫的社会环境和形态进化，

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.100598
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Smith J