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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170103290
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Chemical signalling in the sea. This project aims to understand how eggs attract and select sperm, and how the environment influences these interactions. Differential sperm chemotaxis, a form of mate choice involving chemical signalling between eggs and sperm, has only been described in mussels, but may be a widespread form of gamete-level sexual selection. The project will study the biochemical and molecular basis of differential sperm chemotaxis in mussels, and the stability of gamete-level interactions under different environmental conditions. Improved fundamental knowledge of reproduction in a commercially important marine species may yield future commercial benefits for Australia’s marine food production sectorFunded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2017
End Date: 12-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $453,500.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches) | Ecology | Behavioural Ecology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
