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Information × Registration Number 0221U106008, 0120U104706 , R & D reports Title Integration of mammalian organism as a proxy of stability at aquatic and aerial life (as illustrated by skeleton traits) popup.stage_title Head Holdin Pavlo Ye., Кандидат біологічних наук Registration Date 23-09-2021 Organization Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine popup.description2  Progress Report on Research Project «Integration of mammalian organism as a proxy of stability at aquatic and aerial life (as illustrated by skeleton traits)»: 43 p., 4 tables., 17 fig., 47 references. EVOLUTION, SKELETON, PHYLOGENY, MORPHOLOGY, MAMMALS. Research objects: Taxa: chiropterans, cetaceans, including extant and extinct baleen whales, toothed whales, “archaeocetes”, representatives of closely related taxa (outgroups). Structures: skeleton elements – skull, hyoid, vertebrae, ribs, sternum, girdles and limbs, teeth; genes: 5’-end Hox-genes. Project aim: overall aim is identification of ways of integration and transformation, sources of evolutionary novelties in mammalian skeleton systems during their transition to aerial and aquatic ways of life. The project is focused on research of skeleton structures as the most conservative elements, which are convenient models for study of evolutionary process. It is specially focused on processes of ontogeny prolongation in groups which are known for their body size disparity and longevity. The first stage of project implementation in 2021 includes collection and primary processing of morphological data, including institutions of Ukraine and Georgia, collection of genetic materials from Ukrainian institutions, collection and primary processing of genetic data from European institutions. Research methods: traditional and geometric morphometry, multidimensional morphological modelling; data collection – 3D surface scanning, photography, measurements. Micromorphological preparationing (including paleohistology), microscopy and CT. Mathematical methods: factor analysis, phylogenetic analysis, graph analysis. DNA and RNA extraction from genetic samples. Bioinformatics: annotation of target sequences in open databases, identification and prediction of nucleotide and protein sequences, data analysis. Product Description popup.authors Vertsimakha Oksana O. Vyshnyakova Karina O. Hulak Kseniia L. Ghazali Maria A. Davydenko Svitozar V. Dzeverin Ihor I. Otriazhyi Pavlo A. Telizhenko Valeria S. popup.nrat_date 2021-09-23 Close