{"id":13,"date":"2017-11-16T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T00:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2021-09-09T15:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:54:03","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the major challenges in biology is linking phenotype to genotype, and this challenge is amplified when the phenotype of interest involves interactions between multiple symbiotic partners. Corals and their symbiotic algae represent an iconic symbiosis, but this relationship is threatened by climate change. Research in the Davies lab leverages in situ environmental data and mesocosm\/culturing work with large-scale genomic and transcriptomic data to identify the mechanisms underlying adaptation, dispersal, and symbiosis in corals. Our long-term research vision aims to uncover mechanistic links from phenotype to genotype and predict evolutionary trajectories for this critical symbiosis under climate change.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our ongoing research projects include:<\/p>\n<p>Assessing coral and symbiont <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/research\/coral-and-symbiont-connectivity\/\">genetic diversity and population connectivity<\/a> across multiple scales<br \/>\nThe influence of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/research\/diel-thermal-variability\/\">environmental variability<\/a> on coral thermal performance<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/research\/coral-resilience-to-disturbances\/\">impacts of disturbances<\/a> on coral and microbial resilience<br \/>\nThe dynamics of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/research\/symbiosis\/\">coral symbiosis<\/a> establishment, maintenance and loss<br \/>\nThe physiological and genomic consequences of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/research\/population-genomics-of-range-expansion\/\">coral range expansion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major challenges in biology is linking phenotype to genotype, and this challenge is amplified when the phenotype of interest involves interactions between multiple symbiotic partners. Corals and their symbiotic algae represent an iconic symbiosis, but this relationship is threatened by climate change. Research in the Davies lab leverages in situ environmental data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14133,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}