Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment for FY 1997

摘要DBI 9750190格雷戈里·M·埃里克森这一行动资助了美国国家科学基金会1997年与环境相关的生物科学博士后研究奖学金。这一奖学金为研究员提供了一个在博士学位之外获得额外科学培训的机会，并在任何生物领域的分子、细胞、组织、种群、社区和/或生态系统层面上以创新和富有想象力的方式探索生物体与其环境之间相互作用的基本机制，这一领域得到了国家科学基金会生物科学局的支持。每个研究金资助一项研究和培训计划，该计划将在一个赞助实验室进行。该联谊会的研究和训练计划名为“两栖鱼的骨骼如何在进化的水陆过渡过程中改变以适应陆上运动。”脊椎动物在陆地上的出现是通过对附件骨骼进行生物力学改造而实现的。这些变化的性质是通过测试两栖鱼类及其水生姐妹类群骨骼的生物力学特性来确定的。这些结果对于理解骨骼形态和功能是如何在进化过程中受到机械需求的调节具有重要意义。

Abstract DBI 9750190 Gregory M. Erickson This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment for 1997. This fellowship provides an opportunity for the Fellow to gain additional scientific training beyond the doctoral degree and to pursue innovative and imaginative into the fundamental mechanisms underlying the interactions between organisms and their environment at the molecular, cellular, organismal, population, community and/or ecosystem level in any area of biology supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation. Each fellowship supports a research and training plan to be carried out in a sponsoring laboratory. The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "How bones of amphibious fish are modified for terrestrial locomotion during evolutionary water-to-land transitions." The emergence of vertebrates onto land was made possible by biomechanical modification of the appendicular skeleton. The nature of such changes is being determined by testing the biomechanical properties of bones from amphibious fish and their aquatic sister taxa. The results are important for understanding how bone form and function are regulated by mechanical demand during evolution.