Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0210662

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0210662

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The evolution of parental care in leeches: costs and benefits in a clade of hermaphroditic, invertebrate ectotherms. Parental care is a basic element of reproduction in many species. Nearly everything we know about parental care comes from study of vertebrates, especially birds and mammals. Leech is synonymous with exploitation, but many of these annelid worms are devoted parents. Because they differ dramatically from most vertebrates, leeches present an excellent, but as yet unused, opportunity to test our theories and understanding of the evoluton of parental care. We will examine the evolution of degrees of care and sibling competition in leech families, and use molecular markers to better understand the genetic structure of populations of these invertebrates.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2002

End Date: 03-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $155,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Population And Ecological Genetics | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences |

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