The nutritional geometry of parental diet

本项目旨在研究祖先日粮对后代发育和生产性能的影响。认识到个人的饮食可以影响其后代的特征和健康影响生物学和医学，但传统研究方法的局限性使得对这种影响的理解不完整。营养几何框架使研究人员能够分析饮食组成的影响作为复杂的响应面，最近已被用于研究亲代饮食的影响。在这一突破的基础上，该项目打算分析祖先饮食的影响，并测试与进化、生态和人类健康有关的假设。

This project aims to investigate the effects of ancestors’ diet on descendants’ development and performance. Recognition that an individual’s diet can affect its descendants’ features and health influences biology and medicine, but limitations of conventional research methodologies make understanding such effects incomplete. The Nutritional Geometry framework enables researchers to analyse effects of diet composition as complex response surfaces, and has recently been used in research on parental diet effects. Building on this breakthrough, this project intends to analyse the effects of ancestors’ diet, and test hypotheses relevant to evolution, ecology and human health.