Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Amount

$592,499.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This project investigates the ecological and behavioral factors that promote genetic divergence in, and ultimately the evolution of, new species. It focuses on bird species in the isolated forest islands of the Caucasus. DNA sequences from mitochondrial a