Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180100306

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE180100306

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Does spurious maternal-fetal signalling support the evolution of a placenta. This project aims to test a model that explains how the placenta has evolved as a new organ more than 100 times in fishes, reptiles, and mammals including our own ancestors. The project will assess whether regulatory components of the placenta evolve as a result of spurious maternal-fetal signalling following egg retention and eggshell loss in viviparous reptiles. Expected outcomes of this project include a new understanding of how complex organs originate and evolve in animals. This will benefit society through a broader depth of understanding of our own evolutionary history and provides a framework for future studies to investigate the origin and evolution of organs more broadly in animals.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 04-04-2018

End Date: 22-04-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $365,058.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Evolution of Developmental Systems | Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology | Evolution of Developmental Systems | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences

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