Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP180101696
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Haplodiploidy: the great evolutionary innovation of the Hymenoptera. This project aims to identify a key gene that causes thelytokous parthenogenesis. Thelytoky is the ability of a female to clone herself (virgin birth), and is wide spread in the Hymenoptera which include bees, wasps and ants. Hymenopteran thelytoky is important because it facilitates some major transitions in life history, particularly social parasitism. The capacity for virgin birth is central to the invasiveness of many ant species, and enables social cancers (parasitic workers that kill colonies) in bees. The benefit of this project is that the identification of the gene should help identify potentially invasive ant species and help prevent the social cancers that affect commercial beekeeping in South Africa from spreading world-wide.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 12-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $289,844.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Genomics | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Genetics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species at Regional or Larger Scales | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
