Basic information: The project will support the growth of internationalization and the quality of the research environment in the Czech Republic and the development of researchers. The project will help determine the relationship between genes related to local adaptation, define their effect on climate change resistance, and model the distribution of gene variability. Project research will assess whether its relationship to environmental variation is explained solely by climatic differences between the areas in which individual gene variants occur, or by different climatic tolerances associated with these variants. In particular, the covariation of genes and BMR will be defined. Furthermore, there will be investigated the origin of gene/BMR variability in different glacial refugia, their role in spatial/ecological segregation, and their influence on the geographic distribution of intraspecific populations under different climate change scenarios using ENM approaches. In this way, there will be developed analytical tools that will make it possible to predict the resistance of species to global changes with great accuracy.

It is co-financed by the European Union

Rgistration No: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_010/0008118

Project duration: 1. 10. 2023 - 30. 09. 2025 

Investigator: Mgr. Marco Sánchez Escalante Ph.D. Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics CAS, v. v. i.

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