Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0773602

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0773602

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Evolutionary genetics of bovid genomes over 60,000 years. This project will provide data critical for understanding the genetic background of modern cattle and bison, and how humans have shaped factors such as milk yield, growth rates and muscle mass. It will also reveal genes and genomic regions that were favoured in the domestication process, including those potentially linked to genes of commercial interest for future research. This pioneering ancient DNA approach will also be applicable to a variety of other domestic crops and animals. The unique temporal analysis of microevolution will provide crucial data for genetic research, and groundproof our attempts to analyse the timing and nature of human evolutionary history, major domestication events and inform conservation management.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2007

End Date: 12-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $532,825.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Meiosis And Recombination | Population And Ecological Genetics | Global Change Biology | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Dairy cattle | Livestock | Beef cattle |

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