Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559291

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0559291

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The role of ecological specialisation in insect-plant macroevolutionary processes: a molecular phylogenetic approach across three kingdoms. Flowering plants and phytophagous insects are major components of the world's biodiversity and their evolution has been closely linked. This project will increase our knowledge of insect-endosymbiont-plant interactions and enhance our understanding of the origin, generation and maintenance of much of the world's biodiversity. A broader understanding of how insects, their symbionts and plants have co-evolved should improve our understanding of why and how some insects are able to become pests whereas others do not. Scale insects (the model system in this study) are important pests, both ecologically (Christmas Island interaction between coccids, rainforest plants and crazy ants) and economically (e.g. citrus mealybug).

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 16-06-2005

End Date: 31-01-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $263,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Conservation And Biodiversity | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (flora and fauna) | Biological sciences | Living resources (flora and fauna) |

Other Keywords

Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Biological sciences | Conservation And Biodiversity | Evolutionary Biology | Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Living resources (flora and fauna)

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