Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170100772

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170100772

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

DNA methylation in insect social evolution. This project will investigate the evolutionary relationship between DNA methylation and the advanced sociality displayed by bees, ants and wasps. The project will map DNA methylation across the social insects and test whether it has coevolved with sociality. It will also determine how a vital social cue, the queen pheromone, influences the worker methylome. Finally, it will apply quantitative genetic and methylomic methods to wild insects, revealing patterns of selection and inheritance in epigenetic and phenotypic traits. By combining genomic and evolutionary methods, the project will advance the ongoing debate about the importance of methylation to sociality and extreme phenotypic plasticity. It will contribute to a quantum leap in our understanding of DNA methylation and sociobiology and mark the first application of quantitative genetics to wild insects.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 30-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $380,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Genetics | Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Genetics | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)

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