Project description
Understanding mechanisms of nutritional polyphenism
Animals are constantly challenged by environmental fluctuations, which require mechanisms to adjust to new conditions. Polyphenism is an original mechanism that produces discrete phenotypes from a single genotype to track environmental changes. The EU-funded ALTEREVO project aims to understand the mechanisms of nutrient-sensitive polyphenism and their evolution. The study will use aphids and their symbionts to investigate the molecular mechanisms of nutritional polyphenism, which creates alternative morphs adapted to distinct host plants, and to understand how this machinery is genetically encoded. The goal is to investigate rapid phenotypic adjustments of aphid morphs to different host plants in an evolutionary framework, utilising metabolomics to identify phenotype-inducing plant compounds, large-scale gene expression, epigenetic analyses, gene functional characterisation and phylogenomics.
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Topic(s)
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based
Coordinator
75007 Paris Cedex 07
France
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