Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100676

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150100676

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

How males alter their mates' ageing rates and lifespans. The proposed project investigates how males affect the lifespan, ageing and subsequent reproduction of their mates. It seeks to draw on and adapt tools and approaches used in molecular genetics and physiology to test predictions from evolutionary theories of sexual conflict, life-histories and ageing in an organism of biomedical and ecological significance, the house mouse. It is expected that this approach will allow the study, in unsurpassed detail, of the costs males impose on females via mating, insemination, territoriality and via conflict over how many offspring to have and how to invest in their care.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 31-01-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $561,508.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Life Histories | Behavioural Ecology | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural Ecology | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences | Life Histories | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

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