BONE SCAN

Traces in the bones: reconstructing the lost soft anatomy of the earliest vertebrates through ultra-high resolution synchrotron scanning

Coordinatore	UPPSALA UNIVERSITET    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Sweden [SE]
Totale costo	1˙046˙782 €
EC contributo	1˙046˙782 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2008-AdG
Funding Scheme	ERC-AG
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-04-01   -   2014-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INSTALLATION EUROPEENNE DE RAYONNEMENT SYNCHROTRON  Organization address address: rue Jules Horowitz 6 city: GRENOBLE postcode: 38043 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Manuel Cognome: Rodriguez Email: send email Telefono: +33 476 88 22 30 Fax: +33 476 88 24 18	FR (GRENOBLE)	beneficiary	178˙200.00
2	UPPSALA UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: SANKT OLOFSGATAN 10 B city: UPPSALA postcode: 751 05 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Irene Cognome: Soderhäll Email: send email Telefono: +46 18 4712817 Fax: +46 18 4716425	SE (UPPSALA)	hostInstitution	868˙582.00
3	UPPSALA UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: SANKT OLOFSGATAN 10 B city: UPPSALA postcode: 751 05 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Per Erik Cognome: Ahlberg Email: send email Telefono: 0046 16 4712641 Fax: -0046 18 4712683	SE (UPPSALA)	hostInstitution	868˙582.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Early vertebrate evolution involved a series of drastic structural reorganisations as new features were added and elaborated. The fossil record illuminates this evolutionary history more directly than inferences from the diversity of living forms, but the fossils usually consist only of bones whereas many of the most important and interesting changes occurred in the soft anatomy. Traditional approaches to reconstructing the musculature and other soft tissues of fossil vertebrates rely on subjective tools, like the visual identification of rough bone textures thought to indicate muscle attachments, and generally leave a lot to be desired. Here I propose a wholly novel and radically more objective approach to the identification of soft-tissue contacts, using holotomographic synchrotron CT at sub-micron resolutions to identify these contacts by the three-dimensional micro-architecture of the bone. A pilot study has already shown that such scans (performed at the ESRF synchrotron facility in Grenoble) are capable of imaging key features such as arrested growth surfaces and probable Sharpey s fibres in 380 million year old fossils. We will undertake a systematic review of the three-dimensional bone micro-architectures associated with different soft-tissue contacts in living vertebrates, and the use this as a key to reconstruct the soft-tissue contacts on fossil bones with unprecedented accuracy. This will permit us to produce far more reliable reconstructions of the soft anatomy than has hitherto been possible. Our findings will inform other areas of palaentology, particularly functional morphology, and will also be of great importance to evolutionary developmental biology.'