Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0346172

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0346172

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Sex, parthenogenesis and adaptation: a novel laboratory 'natural selection' experiment testing the adaptive significance of sexual and asexual reproduction. One of the greatest challenges for evolutionary biology is explaining the widespread occurrence of sexual reproduction. Many theoretical models show some inherent benefits of sex, however these models make assumptions that little or no empirical data exists for. Using a novel phenomenon found in the parasitoid wasp genus Trichogramma, I will investigate the adaptive significance of sexual and asexual reproduction in a laboratory natural selection experiment and therefore directly test the theory for the evolution and maintenance of sex. This will be the first such test in a higher organism.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 02-2003

End Date: 01-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $193,035.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Molecular Evolution | Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Population And Ecological Genetics | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences |

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