Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0345058

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0345058

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Brain temperature regulation in mammals: mechanisms and consequences. Mammals detect increases in body temperature predominantly in the brain. Counterintuitively many mammals selectively cool the brain during heat stress, which appears to defeat the mechanism for inducing cooling responses. We intend to investigate this apparent anomaly which we believe is concerned with optimizing water use in hot conditions. We will further investigate the source of water for evaporative cooling by panting and discover if there has been convergent evolution in thermoregulatory strategies in the eutherian and marsupial lineages. The data we collect will be used to support a new model for thermoregulation in mammals.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 02-07-2003

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $150,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Animal Physiology—Systems | Comparative Physiology | Physiology | Animal Physiology—Biophysics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Sheep—meat | Sheep—wool | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Physiology—Biophysics | Animal Physiology—Systems | Biological sciences | Comparative Physiology | Physiology | Sheep—meat | Sheep—wool

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