Steacie Fellowship RTI - Environmental Chambers for Invertebrates

Steacie Fellowship RTI - 无脊椎动物环境室

• 批准号: 437900-2013
• 负责人: Agrawal, Aneil
• 金额: $ 3.64万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=499112
• 关键词: Steacie; Fellowship; RTI; Environmental; Chambers

Reliable, controlled environmental chambers are essential for lab experiments with invertebrates. Two reach-in environmental chambers are requested, one primarily for working with rotifers and the other for fruit flies. The experiments performed with these organisms are related to two of the most fundamental questions in evolutionary genetics: (i) Why do organisms shuffle their genomes through sexual reproduction? (ii) How populations cope with the constant input of deleterious mutations? Performing high quality research related to these questions requires the space to perform highly-replicated experiments under controlled environmental conditions.

可靠、可控的环境舱对于无脊椎动物的实验室实验是必不可少的。需要两个可伸展的环境室，一个主要用于轮虫工作，另一个用于果蝇。对这些生物进行的实验与进化遗传学中最基本的两个问题有关：(I)为什么生物通过有性繁殖来洗牌它们的基因组？(2)人口如何应对有害突变的持续输入？要进行与这些问题相关的高质量研究，需要有空间在受控环境条件下进行高度重复的实验。