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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160102991
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The evolution of phenotypic plasticity during a biological invasion. The project seeks to unravel the mechanisms by which a species responds to challenges such as pollution, invasive species and climate change. Organisms can deal with challenges by changing their phenotypes in response to environmental cues (plasticity) and/or by longer-term changes in gene frequencies within a population (adaptation). Plasticity itself can be adaptive; so how does it evolve? Invasive species offer a unique opportunity to answer that question, because a founding population (with modest genetic variation) must deal with myriad challenges in its new home. Using Australia’s cane toad invasion as the model system, the project aims to tease apart the roles of epigenetic and genetic modifications, and the interplay between them, as drivers for the toads’ success and rapid evolution in Australia.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 12-2021
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $385,700.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Invasive Species Ecology | Genetics | Biological Adaptation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species at Regional or Larger Scales | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
