Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344021

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0344021

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Testing the adaptive benefit of physiological acclimation. For over a century, physiologists have observed that organisms can modify their physiological function in response to changes in the environment, a process known as acclimation. However, until recently, the adaptive benefit of these acclimation responses has been assumed rather than tested. In this study, I will utilize the effects of temperature on the ability of male mosquito fish (Gambusia holbrooki) to obtain matings and subsequently sire offspring to test the benefit of both thermal acclimation and developmental plasticity. This will allow the most comprehensive test of two important hypotheses in comparative physiology: the Beneficial Acclimation Hypothesis and the Beneficial Developmental Plasticity Hypothesis.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-07-2003

End Date: 30-07-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $270,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Comparative Physiology | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Physiology | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Comparative Physiology | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified | Physiology | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology

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