Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208052

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0208052

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Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Putting sexual selection in a life-history context: What is meant by genetic quality? Theories of sexual signalling have been developed largely without reference to life-history theory and quantitative genetics. We will test recent theory that shows the costs of signals are best measured in units of future survival and reproduction. In a series of field and laboratory experiments on the cricket Teleogryllus commodus, we will test the idea that the "male genetic quality" referred to by good-genes models of sexual selection is quality in the general ability to acquire resources, rather than in how resources are allocated among fitness components.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-01-2002

End Date: 01-09-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $482,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Quantitative Genetics | Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Genetics | Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Quantitative Genetics | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology

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