Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150103636

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150103636

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Sex-specific selection and adaptation in spatially variable environments. This project aims to outline a broadly applicable approach for estimating sex-specific selection, which is based on an extension of the theory of local adaptation with gene flow. Adaptive evolution can be constrained when patterns of selection differ between the sexes. Experiments using model organisms provide strong evidence for adaptive constraints due to sex differences in selection. Outside of these model systems, sex-specific selection estimates are difficult to obtain because methods for estimating selection are not easily applied to natural populations. Experiments, using a clinally variable Drosophila population from Eastern Australia constitute the first tests of the new theory.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2015

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $277,832.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Evolutionary Biology | Biological Adaptation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological Adaptation | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

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