Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170104952

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170104952

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Design of the cardiovascular system of living and fossil vertebrates. This project aims to understand how the heart and blood vessels evolved in mammals, birds, reptiles and fish to achieve efficiency. The heart is the most important organ for life. The project will study the structure and function of vertebrate animals’ hollow and spongy hearts to show how energetics shaped their evolution. It will measure arterial holes in bone to gauge brain and bone metabolism, which opens up a new way to measure metabolism in extinct animals directly from fossils, rather than by inference from living relatives. The expected outcome is to correlate cardiovascular design and metabolic rates of organs.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2017

End Date: 09-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $230,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Animal Physiology - Systems | Comparative Physiology | Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified | Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Animal Welfare | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

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