Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100958

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE140100958

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding how shared between-sex genetic variance constrains the evolution of sexual dimorphism. Differences between males and females in the expression of shared traits have been of lasting interest to biologists. One fundamental question, which is as yet poorly understood, regards the extent to which a common genome restricts the independent evolution of the sexes. This project proposes a novel way of examining the degree to which the shared genetic architecture restricts the evolution of the sexes and the costs this imposes on population fitness. The results from the proposed experiments will give a clearer picture of how current measures reflect the true genetic constraint imposed on the sexes from a shared genetic architecture.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2014

End Date: 29-05-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $394,112.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Behavioural Ecology | Genetics | Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics) | Biological Adaptation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural Ecology | Biological Adaptation | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Genetics | Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)

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