Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0558668

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0558668

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Colour vision and photoreceptors in reef fish: a model system to discover the function of double cones. Humans are visual animals and as lucky Australians we love to look at The Great Barrier Reef. This project, while rooted in the complexities of visual neurobiology, uses a recently discovered set of 4 different reef fish from the GBR to teach us more about fundamental principles in vision. These fish, diverse as damselfish and snappers, will help solve a mystery centuries old. Double cones are the commonest daytime photoreceptor in the eyes of almost all vertebrates (humans without them are exceptions) and yet nobody knows what they do. Reef fish have them, so let's ask them what they see!

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-05-2005

End Date: 30-05-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $1,130,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Zoology | Neurobiology | Animal Anatomy And Histology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Anatomy And Histology | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Biological sciences | Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Neurobiology | Other | Zoology

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