Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450569

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0450569

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Sociogenomics of honeybees. From genes to society. This project will show how complex social behaviour of honeybees like dance communication and thermoregulation is genetically controlled. The complete sequence of the honeybee genome will be published in 2003, and a gene chip based on it will be created shortly afterwards. These new technologies will make our project technically feasible. By backcrossing, workers with different genetic tendencies to do a task can be generated within an otherwise uniform background. Age-matched workers that perform a behaviour like thermoregulation can be compared to sisters that do not, and the genes that are switched on in the two groups compared.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2004

End Date: 31-01-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $600,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Gene Expression | Genome Structure | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Livestock not elsewhere classified | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Gene Expression | Genetics | Genome Structure | Livestock not elsewhere classified | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology

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