Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0769975
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Convergent Evolution of Desert Lizards: Phylogenomic and Morphological Analyses of Limb Development. Evolutionary convergence, where similar traits evolve independently in multiple lineages, is a fundamental biological process, which affects many aspects of an organism's morphology. Despite its importance we don't understand what underlies the convergence we observe in nature - does convergence in genetic make-up underlie convergence in morphology? We will investigate whether similar hindlimb morphologies are determined by the same genetic mechanisms in iguanian lizards of Australia and North America. Our study will be the first of its kind in vertebrates and will provide significant information about the evolutionary link between an animal's morphology and its genetic make-up.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 02-2007
End Date: 04-2010
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $263,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Molecular Evolution | Gene Expression | Genetics | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified
