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

Katherine C. Kelley本行动为1997年NSF与环境相关的生物科学博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该奖学金为研究员提供了获得博士学位以外的额外科学培训的机会，并在美国国家科学基金会生物科学理事会支持的任何生物学领域中，在分子、细胞、有机体、种群、群落和/或生态系统层面上，对生物与其环境之间相互作用的基本机制进行创新和富有想象力的研究。每个奖学金支持在赞助实验室进行的研究和培训计划。这项研究和培训计划的题目是“基因和亲代对反捕食者性格发展的影响”。它的副标题是“水泡甲虫颜色和化学防御的实验分析”。许多昆虫具有化学防御作用，并以明显的（警示）颜色向捕食者宣传它们的毒性，但这些特征的种内变异的遗传机制在很大程度上是未知的。发育、定量遗传和实验方法被结合起来测量遗传和亲本对水疱甲虫颜色和化学防御的影响。本研究提供了对昆虫预警机制的理解和对性状集整合约束的新分析。

Abstract DBI 9750137 Katherine C. Kelley 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 "Genetic and parental effects on the development of antipredator characters." It is subtitled "Experimental analyses of blister beetle coloration and chemical defense." Many insects are chemically defended and advertise their noxiousness to predators with conspicuous (aposematic) coloration, but the inheritance mechanisms underlying intraspecific variation in these traits are largely unknown. Developmental, quantitative genetic, and experimental approaches are being combined to measure genetic and parental effects on the coloration and chemical defense of blister beetles. This research provides a mechanistic understanding of insect aposematism and a novel analysis of constraints on character suite integration.