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SpecIAnt

Speciation in ants: Unraveling the genetic, epigenetic and molecular basis of speciation using wood ants

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Project "SpecIAnt" data sheet

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Coordinator	HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO Organization address address: YLIOPISTONKATU 3 city: HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO postcode: 14 website: www.helsinki.fi contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Finland [FI]
Project website	https://jonnakulmuni.wordpress.com/
Total cost	191˙325 €
EC max contribution	191˙325 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-09-01 to 2021-09-01

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO Organization address address: YLIOPISTONKATU 3 city: HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO postcode: 14 website: www.helsinki.fi contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FI (HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO)	coordinator	191˙325.00

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Project objective

The enormous amount of diversity that surrounds us raises one of the key questions in evolutionary biology: How do new species originate? Speciation depends on the evolution of reproductive isolation but, with few exceptions, the genes underlying reproductive isolation and their modes of action are unknown. The novelty of this project lies in testing if, in addition to mutations in genes, epigenetics and gene expression are mechanisms that contribute to the process of speciation. For these aims I will use wood ants and their hybrids combining large-scale data sets on genomes, gene expression and genome-wide methylation. These approaches will be complemented with protein modeling of candidate genes resulting in a multidisciplinary project. Further aims are to develop an outreach programme on evolution for high schools and in collaboration with the Finnish Environment Institute to investigate the role of hybrids in forest ecosystems. Together these objectives yield a project that has high scientific standing and societal importance.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Martin-Roy, Kulmuni Temperature fluctuations between years predict temporal allele frequency variation in a hybrid ant population published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	Under review in Evolution	2020-02-27
2019	Kulmuni J, Nouhaud P, Pluckrose L, Satokangas I, Dhaygude K, Butlin R. Hybridizing wood ants reveal barrier instability and natural selection at candidate loci underlying speciation published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	Submitted to Nature Ecology and Evolution	2020-02-27
2019	Nouhaud P, Blackaert A, Bank C, Kulmuni J. Understanding Admixture: haplodiploids to the rescue published pages: , ISSN: 0169-5347, DOI:	Trends in Ecology and Evolution in press	2020-02-27

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