2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The adaptive evolution of cryptic coloration and aposematic coloration: the genetic backgrounds causing the diversification of insect color
Project/Area Number |
15K18615
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Ecology/Environment
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Research Institution | Toho University |
Principal Investigator |
KONUMA Junji 東邦大学, 理学部, 講師 (10613838)
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Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Keywords | 体色 / QTL / carabid beetles |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, we applied QTL mapping to the hybrids between Carabus blaptoides subspecies with a different body color. One QTL scan showed some LOD peaks in the green and blue colors on the linkage groups, which implied existences of the genetic regions associated with the beetle colors. Two QTL scan suggested that epistatic regions may exist in the linkage groups. These QTL may be the genetic background of the body color of Carabus blaptoides.
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Free Research Field |
進化生態学
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