Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100327

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE150100327

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Does sex matter? The impact of sex differences on pathogen evolution. Males and females experience the burden of infection differently. Males are typically thought of as the 'sicker sex', favouring investment in costly sexual displays, at the expense of immune function. But what does this mean for the pathogen? Each sex presents a unique set of challenges that an invading organism must overcome; yet the impact of these differences on pathogen evolution has been surprisingly overlooked. This project aims to unravel how sex-specific challenges influence the outcome of pathogen evolution. This work will show how infection in males or females can alter the evolutionary potential of disease, and will ask whether same-sex populations could ever lead to the evolution of new pathogen strains and virulence genes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2015

End Date: 05-02-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $378,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Host-Parasite Interactions | Behavioural Ecology | Evolutionary Biology | Biological Adaptation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural Ecology | Biological Adaptation | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Host-Parasite Interactions

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