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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP210101084
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The Cape honey bee and the origins of virgin birth. Using honeybees, the aim is to show how a mutation in a single gene creates a new species. This gene causes a shift from sexual to asexual reproduction, allowing workers to clone themselves (virgin birth), thus turning a formerly cooperative species into a social cancer. Observing a real-time speciation event driven by a single gene is an incredibly rare opportunity and enables this project to determine the socio-genetic mechanisms that reduce gene flow between neighbouring populations and to explain how expression of the gene is regulated. Further, because clonal reproduction often leads to invasiveness in social insects - a dangerous outcome - understanding the origins of virgin birth is also critical to understanding invasiveness.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 12-2021
End Date: 01-2022
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $288,760.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Ethology and Sociobiology | Behavioural Ecology | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Genetics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Animal Production and Animal Primary Products not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
