Expanding gene-environment causality in evolutionary genetics

该项目旨在调查环境经验如何塑造表型、在种群中产生差异并最终促进进化。它的目标是关于环境影响如何在个体发育过程中繁殖和/或世代传播的新发现。尽管人们广泛猜测支持新的进化范式，但根据数量遗传学的正式衡量标准，这种知识缺乏审查。该项目旨在将孔雀鱼的谱系暴露在独特的操作之下，并协调圈养和野生种群之间的适应性进化。预计结果将解决生命科学和人文科学方面的知识差距，并可能为初级生产和保护方面的目标提供信息。

This project aims to investigate how environmental experiences shape phenotypes, engender variance in populations and ultimately contribute to evolution. It targets new discoveries for how environmental effects can multiply throughout ontogeny and/or propagate across generations. Although widely speculated to support new evolutionary paradigms, such knowledge lacks scrutiny according to the formal metric of quantitative genetics. This project seeks to expose guppy pedigrees to unique manipulations and reconcile adaptive evolution across captive and wild populations. The outcome is expected to address knowledge gaps in the life and human sciences and potentially inform goals in primary production and conservation.