Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0343249

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0343249

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Early life-history sex determination in reef fishes. In many fishes, gender is influenced by environmental conditions experienced after hatching. However, the timing, cues, and developmental pathways of sex determination are poorly understood. This research will establish how environmental conditions during the juvenile phase control patterns of sex determination in reef fishes and determine if sex differentiation is a response to local- or broad-scale environmental cues. An individual's gender has profound and significant consequences for all aspects of its biology and the mechanism of sex determination has important implications for population ecology. This project will test theory in evolutionary ecology and greatly benefit the management of reef fisheries.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-2003

End Date: 03-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $550,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Ecology | Genetic Development (Incl. Sex Determination)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Biological sciences | Fisheries—commercial |

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