Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100151

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150100151

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Parental imprinting and epigenetic inheritance in honey bees. This project aims to uncover the mechanisms behind epigenetic inheritance in bees, providing deep insights into their biology, and develop an outstanding new system for studying epigenetics. There are compelling theoretical and empirical reasons to predict epigenetic inheritance in honey bees. Further, reciprocal crosses reveal strong paternal effects suggesting that males modify their sperm to increase the reproductive success of their female offspring. Modification of DNA by methylation and the transfer of small RNA molecules in eggs or semen are two candidate mechanisms by which queens and drones may manipulate gene expression in their offspring.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 31-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $424,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ethology and Sociobiology | Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Ethology and Sociobiology | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

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