Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140104161
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The origins of electroreception and nocturnality in the earliest known jawed vertebrates and their bearing on vertebrate diversification. This project aims to discover primary new data to pinpoint the timing, anatomical origins and phylogenetic significance when two key sensory systems first appeared in modern vertebrates: electroreception and specialised nocturnal vision. Such abilities today allow high diversity of vertebrates to co-exist within the same geographical range, for example on tropical reefs or rainforest communities, through careful temporal niche partitioning where reliance on other sensory systems takes over from vision and olfaction as the principal method of prey detection. This project aims to elucidate how the modern fish diversity was shaped by such significant early evolutionary events.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2014
End Date: 12-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $347,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Palaeontology (incl. Palynology) | Palaeoecology | Ecology | Animal Structure and Function
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Conserving Natural Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
