Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150101625

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE150101625

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The evolutionary significance of ejaculate-female interactions. The way that ejaculates interact with the female reproductive tract is thought to have profound evolutionary implications in internal fertilizers. Yet we currently lack clear insights into these processes in most taxa, precisely because such ejaculate-female interactions are hidden from view inside the female's reproductive tract. In this project an integrated series of experiments on a model vertebrate (the guppy) will overcome the inherent challenges in studying ejaculate-female interactions. The project aims to shed new light on the role that ejaculate-female interactions play in sperm competition, and will explore the consequences of these interactions at different evolutionary levels and across varying social environments.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2015

End Date: 06-10-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $385,536.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Behavioural Ecology | Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural Ecology | Evolutionary Biology | Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences

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