Project description
Study investigates the mechanisms promoting green crab invasion in foreign ecosystems
Introduced either naturally or intentionally, invasive alien species are a main driver of biodiversity loss; they can adapt better to their new environment than natives after a certain time and then begin to colonise it. Recent research has shown that rapid evolution, which enables these species to quickly adapt and not go extinct due to maladaptation, accounts for their increased invasive capacity. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MitoRescue project will extend the key outcomes of this research. Researchers will assume that mitochondria, being exquisitely sensitive to environmental stress and with a highly mutagenic DNA, are key organelles involved in rapid evolution. They will study how pollutants and increased temperatures affect an ancestral and an invasive population of the European green crab, an extremely prolific invader.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticsDNA
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmolecular biology
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit Grant
Coordinator
75794 Paris
France
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Partners (1)
4111 Brisbane
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