Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0878206
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Seeing without eyes: the evolution of non-visual photoreceptors in vertebrates. Australia's underwater biodiversity is second to none with endemic species representing the earliest stages in vertebrate evolution, many of them relying heavily on vision for survival. Tracing the evolution of light detection and image formation will provide crucial information about the lifestyles of our vertebrate ancestors, the environmental selection pressures driving speciation and colour communication. Characterisation of optimal light environments and extra-ocular light detection will also help protect and manage endemic species in wild and captive environments.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2008
End Date: 12-2011
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $345,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Comparative Physiology | Zoology | Neurobiology | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Other | Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Fish not elsewhere classified |
