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FRAME · Fungal Research in the Age of Museomic Exploration: revisiting historical lichen collections

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период
2022-09-20 → 2024-09-19
Финансиране от ЕС
210 911 €
Участници
2
Схема
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Лишайниците от групата на лобариоидните, като тези в Нова Каледония, се анализират чрез генетични техники и музейни колекции. Това помага да се разбере еволюцията им и скритото биоразнообразие на гъбите по света.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

FRAME – Fungal Research in the Age of Museomic Exploration: revisiting historical lichen collections

Lichens, often unnoticed, are unique symbiotic partnerships between fungi and algae or cyanobacteria. Thriving in diverse environments, these organisms contribute to ecological processes, serve as bioindicators, and hold cultural significance. Their adaptability and intricate relationships make them a fascinating subject of study, shedding light on the interconnected web of life on Earth. The FRAME project occupies a niche within the study of lichen-forming fungi, a group of ecological significance that has historically received insufficient attention. With an estimated multitude of undiscovered fungal species, our endeavor is to elucidate the intricate diversity of lichens, constituting approximately 17% of known fungal diversity. The methodological underpinning of FRAME lies in museomics, a technique that strategically leverages historical lichen specimens from natural history museums. This approach, not only pragmatic in terms of resource allocation but also pioneering, establishes a methodological blueprint for the study of other taxa. Our primary investigative focus converges on lobarioid lichens, a subgroup renowned for its ecological prominence. Employing advanced genomic techniques, we navigate their genetic landscape to discern their evolutionary trajectory. New Caledonia, situated in the South Pacific, stands as a pertinent case study, providing an opportunity to elucidate the unique attributes characterizing lichen diversity in this region. Beyond its scientific implications, the FRAME project possesses transformative potential. By uncovering the hidden diversity within lobarioid lichens, it highlights the crucial role of archival museum collections in unveiling Earth's concealed richness.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

With current projections of fungal diversity estimated at 2.2 to 3.8 million species, only 3-5% of those species are currently accepted. Within this group, lichen-forming fungi comprise c. 17% of known fungal diversity, playing fundamental roles in the world ecosystems. However, considering that lichens are poorly studied, compared for example to angiosperms, global lichen diversity is widely underestimated, and this is further confounded by the fact that genetic material is sometimes the only way to uncover diversity hidden beneath their simple morphological structures. As researchers race to uncover such cryptic diversity, one resource ripe for exploitation is existing natural history museums, where thousands of lichen specimens have been preserved ranging from recent to centuries-old collections. FRAME seeks to use such existing resources to address this issue with the use of museomics, a novel approach to generate informative genomic sequences from historical collections, providing a cost-effective, efficient, and laborsaving technique to integrate essential organisms into our global biodiversity inventory. This project will not only determine the efficacy of using museomics on fungal collections, but will also provide novel insights into the evolutionary history of a charismatic lineage of lobarioid lichens whose diversity has been continually reclassified in the past decade primarily due to standard genetic analyses. While this project will involve an extensive and robust reclassification of lobarioid lichens as a whole, it will also use New Caledonia as a case study to determine both the efficacy of combining museomics with targeted fieldwork to provide biodiversity estimates, while also elucidating the factors that have led to insular lichen diversification. Thus, through FRAME, a novel and cutting-edge integration of relevant museum collections with modern bioinformatic techniques will be generated, providing an adaptable framework for use in other taxa.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз