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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP230102094
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Hybridisation leading to lost sex: genomic and experimental insights. The project intends to apply advanced genomics to two classic Australian systems and quantitative genetics to one to address long-standing questions about why asexual reproduction is rare. It aims to test for rapid changes in genomes accompanying hybrid-origins of asexuals and whether this new diversity enables their ongoing evolution. The significance is that support for this hypothesis would challenge current theory for why sex is so common. The expected outcome is to understand how variation is generated in natural populations with different ways of reproducing. Benefits would include significant contributions to global science, evolutionary training and potential applications in using hybridisation to manage threatened species or pests.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2023
End Date: 12-2025
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $401,088.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Life histories | Evolutionary ecology | Evolutionary biology | Biological adaptation |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
