Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0558952

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0558952

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Stimulation of the mammalian reproductive system by olfactory pathways. This project answers fundamental questions about mammalian reproductive biology but, because we work with the sheep model, our findings can be applied to two of Australia's biggest export industries, wool and sheepmeat. Understanding the reproductive responses of our production animals to exteroceptive factors such as socio-sexual signals, photoperiod and nutrition is an important first step towards refining the management of breeding programs. It has been argued that this approach will also minimise, and perhaps even remove the need for, exogenous hormones and drugs for controlling the reproductive process.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 22-06-2005

End Date: 31-10-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Animal Physiology—Systems | Animal Reproduction | Neurobiology | Animal Production

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Livestock | Food safety | Sheep—meat |

Other Keywords

Animal Physiology—Systems | Animal Production | Animal Reproduction | Food safety | Livestock | Neurobiology | Sheep—meat

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