Elucidating the relationship between heterozygosity and fitness in a natural marine mammal population

Información del proyecto

FURSEALFITNESS

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 303618

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de inicio 1 Abril 2012

Fecha de finalización 31 Marzo 2016

Financiado con arreglo a

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Coste total € 100 000,00

Aportación de la UE € 100 000,00

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD
Alemania

Objetivo

Many important fitness traits including longevity, reproductive success, parasite resistance, territory-holding ability, song complexity and even attractiveness often correlate with heterozygosity in natural populations. Where documented, such heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFCs) have the clear potential to influence interactions between pathogens and their hosts and the evolution of mate choice. However, because most studies use only around ten neutral microsatellite markers, the proximate mechanisms underlying HFCs remain obscure. Fortunately, next-generation sequencing approaches now make it possible to sequence DNA cheaply and on a massive scale, allowing large panels of Single Nucelotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) to be developed in virtually any organism. By screening these in the Antarctic fur seal, a model system in which unusually high-quality measures of fitness are available, I will for the first time determine the mechanisms underlying a range of HFCs in a natural population and uncover actual genes linked to variation in key traits including longevity, reproductive success and attractiveness.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural. Véase: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

• ciencias naturales › ciencias biológicas › genética › ADN
• ciencias naturales › ciencias biológicas › zoología › mamalogía › cetología

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Programa(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Tema(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG - Marie-Curie Action: "Career Integration Grants"

Convocatoria de propuestas

FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG
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Régimen de financiación

MC-CIG -

Coordinador

UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD

• Aportación de la UE: € 100 000,00
• Dirección: UNIVERSITAETSSTRASSE 25 ; 33615 Bielefeld ; Alemania
• Región: Nordrhein-Westfalen › Detmold › Bielefeld, Kreisfreie Stadt
• Tipo de actividad: Institutos de educación secundaria o superior
• Coste total: Sin datos