SUPR
Population and conservation genomics of eelgrass along the Swedish coasts
Dnr:

NAISS 2023/22-1204

Type:

NAISS Small Compute

Principal Investigator:

Stefanie Ries

Affiliation:

Göteborgs universitet

Start Date:

2023-12-07

End Date:

2025-01-01

Primary Classification:

10615: Evolutionary Biology

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Allocation

Abstract

My Ph.D. project will focus on population genomic assessments of seagrass in the Baltic Sea to provide a baseline for future temporal conservation genetic monitoring of eelgrass in Sweden. Within this project, I would like to analyze 2bRAD data to identify single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from several projects working with the organism eelgrass. The different projects have different questions, but all relate to marine biology and have importance for conservation or for fundamental evolutionary questions. Apart from genotyping, the analyses I will perform mostly relate to genetic structure and gene flow, and I will perform demographic modeling. The data will mainly be generated and analyzed within the framework of my Ph.D. project. The total duration of my Ph.D. will be about 4 years.