Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150103266

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150103266

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The dynamics of sexual selection on gametes in a broadcast spawner. This project aims to develop integrated approaches for understanding sexual selection at the level of the gamete. It will use a new and highly versatile model system - the blue mussel - to seek insights into how multivariate selection targets ejaculates, the dynamic nature of selection, and the putative role that chemical communication between eggs and sperm plays in mediating these processes. A range of interdisciplinary approaches will be used to uncover these patterns, and the mechanisms underlying them. By focusing on a species exhibiting the ancestral reproductive strategy of broadcast spawning, the work will contribute to an understanding of major evolutionary transitions in reproductive biology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $295,900.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Life Histories | Ecology | Behavioural Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

Other Keywords

Behavioural Ecology | Ecology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Life Histories | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)

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