| 项目编号: | 1701721
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| 项目名称: | DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Co-estimating species responses to climatic variation in the Pleistocene using comparative phylogeography of closely related flying frogs across Sumatra |
| 作者: | Matthew Fujita
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| 承担单位: | University of Texas at Arlington
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| 批准年: | 2017
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| 开始日期: | 2017-06-01
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| 结束日期: | 2018-05-31
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| 资助金额: | 19695
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Biological Sciences - Environmental Biology
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| 英文关键词: | sumatra
; species
; diversification
; species distribution
; project
; research
; lowland species
; frog
; highland species
; extensive species diversity
; rhacophorus species
; climate variation
; co-estimate species assemblage response
; comparative phylogeography
; java
; pleistocene climate variation
; historical climate variation
; species-specific process
; pleistocene climate-driven diversification
; several species
; species expansion
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| 英文摘要: | This research investigates the evolutionary processes that have led to the extensive species diversity on two of the largest islands in Indonesia: Sumatra and Java. Very little is known regarding how species originated on these islands, but it is likely that past geologic and climatic events facilitated the diversification of plants and animals. This project will use genetic data to investigate how historical climate variation has influenced the diversification of twelve species of parachuting frogs (genus Rhacophorus). By using several species, this study will tease apart the common factors that influenced their diversification. Results will shed light on how species originate on islands, and provide broader insight on how changing climate affects species distributions and diversification. The project will train and mentor U.S. students, broadening participation in science by underrepresented groups, facilitating extensive international collaboration, and informing conservation practices.
This research will test how Pleistocene climate variation influenced species distributions and diversification on Sumatra and Java. Using Rhacophorus flying frogs as a system, this project will utilize comparative phylogeography to co-estimate species assemblage responses to climate variation of both highland and lowland species. This study will employ an exon target capture approach to sequence ~1000 exons for twelve Rhacophorus species from Sumatra and Java. This project will test hypotheses of species expansions or contractions during the last glacial maximum using an Approximate Bayesian Computational model-testing approach. Using genomic data, the researchers will test for contraction in highland species, and expansion in lowland species as sea levels lowered, but forests contracted across the Sunda Shelf. Additionally, they will estimate a robust phylogeny for all Rhacophorus from Sumatra and Java, building upon previous mitochondrial and double-digest RADseq data generated for this project. The results of this study will complement previous studies investigating both Pleistocene climate-driven diversification in tropical forests, and tropical island diversification by revealing the assemblage-wide and species-specific processes that have driven diversification on the Sunda Shelf. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/90098
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Matthew Fujita. DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Co-estimating species responses to climatic variation in the Pleistocene using comparative phylogeography of closely related flying frogs across Sumatra. 2017-01-01.
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