Conservation and evolutionary genetics of avian malaria with reference to South Pacific Islands

Projektinformationen

AVIAN MALARIA

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 980071

Startdatum 15 Dezember 2008

Enddatum 14 Dezember 2009

Finanziert unter

• Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Gesamtkosten € 0,00

EU-Beitrag € 22 062,00

Koordiniert durch

WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA
India

Ziel

Our ultimate goal in proposed study is to model the degree to which malaria and other diseases have invaded the southern Pacific Islands and an assessment of future risk to the remote Melanesian avifauna based on host colonization histories and current genetic diversity. Lack of epidemiological surveys makes it difficult to understand the wider distribution of the parasites and how it has been transmitted among islands. Members of the silvereye complex (Zosterops lateralis) provide a unique opportunity to study these questions.

The Zosteropidae family contains more successful island colonizers than any other passerine group and in the southwestern Pacific members of the silvereye species complex have repeatedly invaded islands from the Australian mainland. The sequence and dates of colonization of islands have been historically documented and information in general dynamics of the population is also available.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• Medizin- und Gesundheitswissenschaften › Gesundheitswissenschaften › Infektionskrankheit › Malaria
• Naturwissenschaften › Biowissenschaften › Zoologie › Ornithologie
• Naturwissenschaften › Geowissenschaften und verwandte Umweltwissenschaften › Atmosphärenwissenschaften › Klimatologie › Klimaänderungen
• Sozialwissenschaften › Soziologie › Demografie › menschliche Migration
• Naturwissenschaften › Biowissenschaften › Zoologie › spezielle Zoologie: Wirbellose

Programm/Programme

• FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Thema/Themen

• MOBILITY-2.3 - Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowships (IIF)

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

FP6-2005-MOBILITY-7
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Finanzierungsplan

IIF - Marie Curie actions-Incoming International Fellowships

Koordinator

WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA

• Adresse: Chandrabani ; Dehra dun ; Indien
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