Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP1092870
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Origin of jaws - the greatest unsolved mystery of early vertebrate evolution. The 2008 discovery of an unborn embryo in the 380 million-year-old "Mother Fish" from the famous Gogo fossil deposit in NW Australia has attracted a collaboration of Australian, American and Chinese scientists to a new international collaboration. The team will study spectacular new fossils from central Australia and southern China, the oldest known back-boned animals with jaws and a hard skeleton. Innovative 3D X-ray computer tomography, and the Australian synchrotron, will be used to investigate ancient cells and preserved soft tissue structures, to search for evidence that copulation and internal fertilization, as in modern mammals, might have originated when jaws first evolved.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2010
End Date: 12-2015
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $370,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Biogeography | Geology | Palaeontology | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Preserving movable cultural heritage | Biological sciences | Earth sciences |
