Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Molecular Evolution

分子进化博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 9411137
• 负责人: James Costa
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: Fellowships
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-07-01 至 1996-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9411137&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowship; Molecular; Evolution

The larvae of tent caterpillars display a diversity of lifestyles, ranging from solitary individuals to simple aggregations to highly integrated societies. There are six Malacosoma species in North American as well as five European species. Social complexity in this group is defined in terms of interaction and communication between group members, and is thought to be correlated with patterns of host plant utilization and foraging. The diversity of social forms in this genus provides a model system for the elucidation of ecological correlates to the evolution of sociality, as well as of the ways in which sociality may influence host plant use. Phylogenetic relationships among species of the social tent caterpillar genus Malacosoma (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) will be assessed through application of cladisitic methods to gene sequence data to investigate patterns of social-behavioral evolution in this group. Some tent caterpillars are economic pests and better knowledge of the group-living characteristics of this group is of important economic interest to homeowners and farmers.

帐篷毛毛虫的幼虫展现出各种各样的生活方式，从孤独的个体到简单的聚集到高度融合的社会。 北美有六种马拉科瘤物种以及五种欧洲物种。 该组中的社会复杂性是根据小组成员之间的互动和沟通来定义的，被认为与宿主植物利用和觅食的模式相关。 该属中社会形式的多样性为阐明与社会发展的发展以及社会性可能影响宿主使用植物的方式的生态相关的模型系统。 社会帐篷毛毛虫属的系统发育关系（鳞翅目：lasiocampidae）将通过在基因序列数据中应用于研究该组中社会行为进化的模式来评估。 一些帐篷毛毛虫是经济害虫，对该群体的群体生活特征的更好了解对房主和农民来说是重要的经济利益。