ERC Advanced Grant · 2021
Life history is one of the most central concepts in biology. Numerous biological questions ultimately revolve around the causes and consequences of variation in reproduction and survival i.e. fitness. Tremendous effort has been put in establishing the causes and mechanisms for life history trait variation and trade-offs. But even in well studied model organisms, evolutionary genetic and functional genomic approaches are rarely combined, and thus the path from genotype to phenotype often remains a black box. A strategy to overcome this major hurdle has recently emerged, with the discovery of loci that explain exceptionally large proportions of the variation in various life history traits.…
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