Reconstructing evolutionary history of termite collective nest construction

重建白蚁集体筑巢的进化史

• 批准号: DE240100352
• 负责人: Dr Nobuaki Mizumoto
• 金额: $ 26.92万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE240100352
• 关键词: Reconstructing; evolutionary; history; termite; collective

This project aims to ask and answer fundamental questions about how complex animal collective behaviour has evolved in the history of life. It combines the quantification of termite building behaviour and nest structures using a state-of-the-art video tracking technique with the latest molecular phylogenetics. This project expects to provide the first comprehensive information on termite collective building in a phylogenetic framework, which will be a showcase study of future studies on the evolution of complex phenotypes and resolve a debate over termite social evolution. Furthermore, it provides new knowledge of Australian native termite fauna as economically destructive pest insects.

该项目旨在提出并回答有关复杂的动物集体行为在生命史上如何演变的基本问题。它利用最先进的视频跟踪技术和最新的分子系统发育学，将白蚁建筑行为和巢穴结构的量化结合起来。该项目期望在系统发育框架中提供有关白蚁集体构建的第一个全面信息，这将成为未来复杂表型进化研究的展示研究，并解决有关白蚁社会进化的争论。此外，它还提供了关于澳大利亚本土白蚁动物群作为经济破坏性害虫的新知识。