Ribosomal RNA Sequencing and Phylogenetic Parallelism
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Evolutionary changes in distantly-related groups often                  produce outward similarities that can be misinterpreted as                      evidence of close relationship.  Paralellisms, as they are                      called, can only be discerned by evaluating ancestor-descendant                 relationships using evidence that is independent of the features                in question.  PIs propose to collect and analyze 18s ribosomal                  RNA sequence data for a variety of gastropod taxa.  The research                goals are: a) construct a phylogeny for the orders of snails,                   based on molecular data and b) identify parallelisms in the                     evolution of morphological character complexes.  A new molecular                phylogeny lab will be established at the California Academy of                  Sciences for this and future projects.                                                  A successful attempt to construct a biochemical phylogeny               for the snails would have the widest impact on invertebrate                     zoology, paleontology and evolutionary thinking in general.                     There is a vast body of lower-level knowledge of this class, all                without a believable phylogenetic framework.  The need for and                  importance of this research is beyond doubt.  Establishing a                    molecular lab at the California Academy of Sciences will benefit                not only this research project, but that of other Curators and                  investigators in the Bay area.
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{'Code': '112700', 'Text': 'Evolutionary Processes'}
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