Conservation genetics and infectious disease in Brandt's bats

勃兰特氏蝙蝠的保护遗传学和传染病

• 批准号: 2275012
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2275012
• 关键词: Conservation; genetics; infectious; disease; Brandt

Myotis bats are a highly speciose group, which make them attractive systems to study genetic diversiy and comparative genomics. This study will focus on an unusual system where one species in Europe, Brandt's bats, are recent colonists derived from a North American species, little brown bats. Brandt's bats, appear to have adapted to tolerate infection by a pathogenic fungus found widely in European roosts. This fungus has recently spread to North America causing devastating losses in little brown bats. Here we will examine genetic diversity and the resilience of bat species to novel infectious disease, particularly given range-shifts expected following climate change.

蝙蝠是一个高度特殊的类群，这使得它们成为研究遗传多样性和比较基因组学的有吸引力的系统。这项研究将集中在一个不寻常的系统上，在这个系统中，欧洲的一个物种勃兰特蝙蝠是最近的殖民者，来自北美的一个物种，小棕色蝙蝠。勃兰特蝙蝠似乎已经适应了一种在欧洲栖息地广泛存在的致病真菌的感染。这种真菌最近蔓延到了北美，给小棕色蝙蝠造成了毁灭性的损失。在这里，我们将研究遗传多样性和蝙蝠物种对新型传染病的适应能力，特别是考虑到气候变化后预计会发生的范围转移。