Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0451629
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Symbiosomes and symbiosome membranes of corals and other cnidaria. Reef building corals and many other marine animals depend on symbiotic algae. Very little is known about the ways in which these organisms achieve effective communication with their endosymbionts, yet this is vital for understanding coral bleaching, a major present-day problem. In corals and their relatives, algae are housed in membrane-bounded vesicles, symbiosomes, which mediate the signal regulation that maintains an ongoing and healthy association at the cellular level. Unlike some terrestrial symbioses, little is known about the structure and function of the coral symbiosome. This study sets out to investigate this membrane at the cellular and molecular level.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2004
End Date: 12-2007
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $225,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Protein Targeting And Signal Transduction | Membrane Biology | Global Change Biology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Living resources (flora and fauna) | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Marine protected areas |
