Project description
Shedding further light on the biological process of metamorphosis
The EU-funded META-MORPHOSIS project will investigate the biological process of metamorphosis and how it relates to biodiversity. The research fellow will identify the patterns of morphological and functional variation across species and examine the origin and evolution of metamorphosis using the fossil record. They will also elucidate how metamorphosis fosters diversity and quantify its impact on the generation of biodiversity. To achieve this, they will study salamander species with different developmental strategies and ecologies throughout ontogeny, using a combination of state-of-the-art approaches. The results will provide an unprecedented data set and analysis of diversification, considering for the first time how morpho-functional, developmental and ecological factors shape biodiversity through deep time.
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Funding Scheme
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
Coordinator
10115 Berlin
Germany
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