RCN: Enabling comparative studies of the process and products of sexual selection in a genomic context

RCN：在基因组背景下对性选择的过程和产物进行比较研究

• 批准号: 1457541
• 负责人: Bette Loiselle
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1457541&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; Enabling; comparative; studies; process

This Research Coordination Network facilitates new interdisciplinary research collaborations that will advance our understanding of the genomic underpinnings of evolutionary processes important in shaping the ecology, physiology, behavior and diversification of organisms. The network brings together pioneers in the application of genomic approaches, researchers with long-term ecological and behavioral data, software developers and information management specialists to enrich, share, and connect large-scale data sets that provide the foundation for tackling fundamental questions of how organismal traits evolve. Products of this effort include an open-access data repository, a publically available genome browser, and a model of how diverse teams of scientists can collaborate to transform independent research across disciplines into a synthetic enterprise that will provide answers to significant biological questions. This Research Coordination Network is designed to address the evolutionary implications of sexual selection from the level of the genome, to physiology and behavior, to the ecosystem using manakins as a model system. These birds inhabit tropical forests, exhibit extraordinary physical and behavioral adaptations and are readily amenable for study. The network unites researchers across many disciplines to engage in a community-wide effort to enrich genomic resources through functional annotation, develop mechanisms to connect related but heterogeneous data, and apply these resources to understand the complex relationships between genomes and environment that produce form and function in living organisms. The network operates through annual meetings, workshops, working groups, and lab exchanges to develop shared genomic resources, an open-access data repository, synthetic papers and proposals, and new educational and research tools.

该研究协调网络促进了新的跨学科研究合作，这将增进我们对进化过程的基因组基础的理解，这对于塑造生物体的生态、生理、行为和多样化至关重要。该网络汇集了基因组方法应用的先驱、拥有长期生态和行为数据的研究人员、软件开发人员和信息管理专家，以丰富、共享和连接大规模数据集，为解决如何解决这些基本问题奠定基础。有机体特征进化。 这项工作的产品包括一个开放访问的数据存储库、一个公开可用的基因组浏览器，以及一个模型，该模型展示了不同的科学家团队如何协作将跨学科的独立研究转变为综合企业，为重要的生物学问题提供答案。 该研究协调网络旨在以侏儒鸟为模型系统，从基因组水平到生理学和行为，再到生态系统，解决性选择的进化影响。 这些鸟类栖息在热带森林中，表现出非凡的身体和行为适应能力，很容易进行研究。该网络联合了多个学科的研究人员，致力于通过功能注释丰富基因组资源，开发连接相关但异构数据的机制，并应用这些资源来理解基因组与产生形式和功能的环境之间的复杂关系。在生物体中。该网络通过年会、研讨会、工作组和实验室交流来运作，以开发共享基因组资源、开放获取数据存储库、综合论文和提案以及新的教育和研究工具。