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https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP220102928
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Unlocking telomere effects on life, death and fitness in a warming world. Few things in biology provoke such a strong desire for understanding as when adult death and fatal disease can be predicted early in life. A common factor linking early life stress, disease, ageing and time of death are telomeres, the protective regions at the end of each chromosome. This project aims to explicitly link telomere dynamics in free-living ectotherm populations with experimental approaches to advance our understanding of parental and environmental effects on offspring telomeres and their effects later in life. This project will take advantage of one of the world’s longest datasets on ectotherm responses to climate to provide new knowledge of how telomeres affect fitness and the role that the environment plays.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 11-2022
End Date: 10-2025
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $468,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Life Histories | Animal Physiological Ecology | Ecological Physiology | Evolutionary Biology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Mountain and High Country Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
