Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Australian Rainbowfishes

该项目旨在使用一种进化上年轻且具有重要生态意义的鱼类枝来了解适应弹性，并测试来自澳大利亚大陆主要气候区域的“气候变异假说”的预测。将整合相关的景观调查和机械实验研究，以实现能够评估种群和谱系适应和进化弹性的遗传基础的比较进化基因组学框架。预计这将澄清澳大利亚广大地区适应的气候和地理相关性，并在适应研究的新兴模式系统中解开对环境变化的反应。

This project aims to use an evolutionarily young and ecologically important fish clade to understand adaptive resilience and to test predictions derived from the 'climatic variability hypothesis' for the major climatic regions of mainland Australia. Correlative surveys along landscapes and mechanistic experimental studies will be integrated to implement a comparative evolutionary genomics framework capable of assessing the genetic basis of adaptation and the evolutionary resilience of populations and lineages. This is expected to clarify climatic and geographic correlates of adaptation across a vast area of Australia and to disentangle responses to environmental change in an emerging model system for adaptation research.