Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0343170

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0343170

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The genetics of social regulation of reproduction in honey bees. The aim is to characterise the genes that regulate worker reproduction in honeybees and to understand how the effects of these genes are regulated by the social environment. There is an inherent conflict between the interests of each worker (that can increase its biological fitness by laying eggs) and the collective workers (that are disadvantaged by their half sister's reproduction). How sterility is normally maintained in social insects remains an important unsolved mystery of biology. To solve this mystery we will use genomic techniques characterize the genes that control sterility and show how they are regulated by the social environment.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2003

End Date: 31-01-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $560,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Genetics Not Elsewhere Classified | Gene Expression | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Minor livestock (e.g. horses, goats, deer) | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Gene Expression | Genetics | Genetics Not Elsewhere Classified | Minor livestock (e.g. horses, goats, deer) | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology

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