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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT140100907
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Sex and bottlenecks: understanding the evolutionary dynamics of bacterial adaptation. Bacteria can rapidly adapt to changing environments, often with devastating consequences for humans. However, this adaptive evolution is often limited by strong reductions in population size, in particular during transmission from one host to another. This project aims to investigate whether recombination in bacteria can overcome the limits that such bottlenecks impose on the rate of adaptation. To this end, it will construct mathematical models and complement them with evolution experiments in bacterial populations. Results from this research aim to generate fundamental insights into the role of recombination in bacterial evolution and will provide guidance for developing management strategies for bacterial pathogens.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 05-2019
Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships
Funding Amount: $686,570.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Genetics | Biological Adaptation
