Summary
PROJECT SUMMARY Overview: A comprehensive molecular understanding of how mammals ascertain complex traits to adapt to specific environments remains largely unknown. Here, we will take advantage of comparative and functional genomics to systematically dissect dietary adaptation in mammals using frugivory as a model. Mammals evolved from a common dietary ancestor to have an extremely broad range of diets. Amongst these, frugivorous adaptation is of particular significance, as fruit-eating arose in multiple lineages within primate and bat orders. Frugivorous adaptation is also of general interest
