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FRAME – Fungal Research in the Age of Museomic Exploration: revisiting historical lichen collections

Projektbeschreibung

Nutzung von Museumsbeständen zur schnellen und effizienten Erkennung neuer flechtenbildender Pilzarten

Flechtenbildende Pilze spielen eine entscheidende Rolle in den Ökosystemen der Welt und machen fast ein Fünftel aller Pilzarten aus. Allerdings sind flechtenbildende Pilze noch nicht so gut erforscht wie andere Pilzarten, sodass diese Schätzungen im Verhältnis zur tatsächlichen Anzahl der Arten recht niedrig ausfallen dürften. Mit Unterstützung der Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Maßnahmen wird das Projekt FRAME die Museomik nutzen – ein neu entstehendes Gebiet, das die genomischen Daten von Organismen untersucht, die nur in Museumsbeständen vorhanden sind – um auf effiziente und kostengünstige Weise informative genomische Sequenzen zu erzeugen und wichtige Organismen in unser globales Biodiversitätsinventar aufzunehmen.

Ziel

With current projections of fungal diversity estimated at 2.2 to 3.8 million species, only 3-5% of those species are currently accepted. Within this group, lichen-forming fungi comprise c. 17% of known fungal diversity, playing fundamental roles in the world ecosystems. However, considering that lichens are poorly studied, compared for example to angiosperms, global lichen diversity is widely underestimated, and this is further confounded by the fact that genetic material is sometimes the only way to uncover diversity hidden beneath their simple morphological structures. As researchers race to uncover such cryptic diversity, one resource ripe for exploitation is existing natural history museums, where thousands of lichen specimens have been preserved ranging from recent to centuries-old collections. FRAME seeks to use such existing resources to address this issue with the use of museomics, a novel approach to generate informative genomic sequences from historical collections, providing a cost-effective, efficient, and laborsaving technique to integrate essential organisms into our global biodiversity inventory. This project will not only determine the efficacy of using museomics on fungal collections, but will also provide novel insights into the evolutionary history of a charismatic lineage of lobarioid lichens whose diversity has been continually reclassified in the past decade primarily due to standard genetic analyses. While this project will involve an extensive and robust reclassification of lobarioid lichens as a whole, it will also use New Caledonia as a case study to determine both the efficacy of combining museomics with targeted fieldwork to provide biodiversity estimates, while also elucidating the factors that have led to insular lichen diversification. Thus, through FRAME, a novel and cutting-edge integration of relevant museum collections with modern bioinformatic techniques will be generated, providing an adaptable framework for use in other taxa.

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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships

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Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

(öffnet in neuem Fenster) HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01

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UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
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€ 210 911,04
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PROBLEMVEIEN 5-7
0313 Oslo
Norwegen
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Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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