Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2002/00391
Dating the radiation of the pleurocarpous mosses: seeking the evolutionary processes underlying phylogenetic patterns.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr AE Newton, The Natural History Museum, Life Sciences
- Grant held at:
- The Natural History Museum, Life Sciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Genomics
- Palaeoenvironments
- Systematics & Taxonomy
- Conservation Ecology
- Abstract:
- The pleurocarpous mosses include nearly half of extant moss species, with high diversity in forest habitats. Our existing phylogenies show many discrete but poorly resolved families and extremely short internal nodes. This may represent an adaptive radiation prompted by the key innovation of pleurocarpy, a diversification radiation in response to greatly increased ecological possibilities presented by the appearance of major orders of core eudicots in the mid to late Cretaceous, or a combination of these processes. We plan to use molecular data and outgroup fossils (few fossils of pleurocarpous mosses are known) to date this radiation, which will then allow us to explore the possible evolutionary processes involved. Gene sequence data are available for many species, but sampling is incomplete. This grant will support sequencing of genes for key taxa.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2002/00391
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £30,244
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|
| £17,930 | £4,066 | £8,248 |
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