BIRDISLAND

Ecological and Genomic Approaches to Speciation in Island Birds

 Coordinatore IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE 

 Organization address address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD
city: LONDON
postcode: SW7 2AZ

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Brooke
Cognome: Alasya
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 207 594 1181
Fax: +44 207 594 1418

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 200˙549 €
 EC contributo 200˙549 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
 Funding Scheme MC-IEF
 Anno di inizio 2011
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2011-04-01   -   2013-03-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE

 Organization address address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD
city: LONDON
postcode: SW7 2AZ

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Brooke
Cognome: Alasya
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 207 594 1181
Fax: +44 207 594 1418

UK (LONDON) coordinator 200˙549.60

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genes    birds    genomic    finches    questions    made    ecological    speciation   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Although research into the origin of species has made huge progress recently, virtually nothing is known regarding the drivers of speciation at a genomic level. However, the ongoing genomic revolution has made it possible to address key questions such as how many genes are involved in ecological speciation, and whether the same genes are involved in parallel speciation events. Allying Phillimore’s experience in evolutionary ecology of birds and Savolainen’s expertise and significant resources in speciation genomics, we propose to address these outstanding questions. With special emphasis on island finches and Neotropical tanagers, the fellow will conduct a series of global ecological and genomic analyses, combining phylogenies, ecological datasets, candidate genes approaches and novel comparative genomic analyses using the genomes of chicken and zebra finch as templates. He will also disentangle one of the most controversial examples of sympatric speciation in birds, that is, the finches from Tristan de Cunha.'

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