Collaborative Research: Assembling the Echinoderm Tree of Life

合作研究：组装棘皮动物生命树

• 批准号: 1036260
• 负责人: Colin Sumrall
• 金额: $ 18.17万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1036260&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Assembling; Echinoderm; Tree

Echinoderms include familiar animals such as starfishes, sea urchins, and a wide array of extinct forms stretching back to the Cambrian Period, circa 500 million years ago. Echinoderms share a common ancestor with backboned animals and thus provide a crucial link to understanding a huge portion of the entire tree of life as well as the history of our species. This project, the Echinoderm Tree of Life Project, will resolve the phylogenetic placement of Echinoderms within the tree of life and clarify important unresolved relationships among major echinoderm lineages using data from genetic sequencing and anatomy.Echinoderms are fascinating, and their unique features, such as mutable ligaments and novel means of detecting light, have biomedical engineering applications. Because research on such marine animals and their adaptations is naturally attractive to young people, excellent students are expected to be recruited and the importance of science will be communicated to a broad audience. Long-term impacts, embodied by scientific publications, textbooks, anatomical and genomic data, and extensive pages in the Tree of Life and Encyclopedia of Life web projects, will provide resources to researchers and educators. Outreach will include videos and broadcasts about marine exploration and applications of fundamental biological research across the biomedical sciences.

棘皮动物包括熟悉的动物，例如海星，海胆以及大约5亿年前延伸到寒武纪时期的各种灭绝形式。棘皮动物与背碳动物共享一个共同的祖先，因此为了解整个生命之树以及我们物种的历史提供了至关重要的联系。该项目是生命的棘皮动物树项目，将使用遗传测序和解剖结构中的数据来解决生命树中棘皮动物的系统发育位置，并阐明主要的棘皮动物谱系之间重要的未解决的关系。 因为对此类海洋动物及其适应的研究对年轻人来说是自然的吸引力，因此预计优秀的学生将被招募，并且科学的重要性将被传达给广泛的受众。长期影响，由科学出版物，教科书，解剖学和基因组数据以及生命之树和生活中百科全书的广泛页面所体现，将为研究人员和教育工作者提供资源。 外展将包括有关海洋探索的视频和广播，以及整个生物医学科学的基本生物学研究的应用。