| Grant number: | 16/01354-9 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
| Start date: | March 01, 2016 |
| End date: | August 31, 2018 |
| Field of knowledge: | Biological Sciences - Genetics |
| Principal Investigator: | Rodrigo Cogni |
| Grantee: | Murillo Fernando Rodrigues |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Associated research grant: | 13/25991-0 - Ecological genomics of insects: climate adaptations and evolution of ecological interactions, AP.JP |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 17/06374-0 - Global patterns of natural variation in Drosophila melanogaster's immune genes, BE.EP.MS |
Abstract Selective pressures imposed by natural enemies may vary clinally, and the strongest pressure occurs in tropical regions. This spatial structure in selective forces may lead to the evolution of clines in polymorphisms related to resistance to natural enemies. The goal of this project is to investigate, with clinal variation, contemporaneous selection in genes of the Drosophila melanogaster immune system. Genomic data for natural populations distributed along a broad latitudinal transect was made available by previous studies; thus, it will be possible to examine the presence of clines in immune-related genes, comparing them to control genes without immune function. | |
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