Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140104233

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140104233

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Using phylogenomics to record the impacts of climate change, extinction and population fragmentation. This project will use ancient DNA from permafrost-preserved Steppe bison bones and bovid exome capture systems to build a detailed record of the genomic impacts of rapid climate and environmental change at the end of the Pleistocene (30 to 11 kyr). The project will analyse how ancestral genetic diversity is distributed amongst surviving bison populations, and the role of nuclear loci under selection and drift. It will create a novel temporal dataset of genomic adaptation and evolution, and will generate critical data for studies of evolutionary processes such as extinctions, speciation and conservation biology and management.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-2014

End Date: 05-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $450,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Genomics | Biogeography and Phylogeography | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Beef Cattle |

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