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PHD CONTRACT ON DOMESTICATIONPHD Contract • August 4th, 2023
Project. Palaeogenomics has revealed when, where and who domesticated traditional livestock. What molecular pathways and evolutionary mechanisms trigger domestication, however, is still an open and hotly-debated question. This proposal will leverage edible insects as innovative model, to directly monitor a new wave of domestications for first time in history. Insects sampled forward in time will be co-analyzed together with specimens from entomological collections, representing past archives of genetic diversity. The resulting time-stamped genomic series will document the evolutionary trajectory of four lines of Tenebrio molitor, prior to and during their domestication, based on often-ignored dimensions of diversity, including nucleotide, epigenome and structural variation.
