Search for evolutionary capacitors and their genetic buffering effect on quantitative traits

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25440212
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Biodiversity/Systematics
• Research Institution: Okayama University
• Principal Investigator: Takahashi Kazuo 岡山大学, 環境生命科学研究科, 准教授 (10450199)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 進化可能性 / 形態測定学 / 量的遺伝学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For organisms, heritability of shape and size is one of the factors that directly affects the rate of evolution. For example, if body size is easy to inherit and larger body is more advantageous, it is expected that the body of the organism will evolve quickly in the direction to become larger. In this research, I aimed to understand the genetic mechanism controlling heritability. As a result, it was confirmed that there are multiple genes on the genome thought to have such functions.

Free Research Field

生態遺伝学