Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170101147

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170101147

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Sex determination in dragons: Genetics, epigenetics and environment. This project aims to discover the master sex-determining gene in a reptile, how that gene is differentially regulated in males and females and by temperature, and to identify evolutionary drivers of transitions between genetic and environmental sex determination. In many reptiles, like mammals, chromosomes determine sex. In others, the temperature at which their eggs are incubated determines sex. This project will study how temperature reverses chromosomal sex determination in dragon lizards. This could show how climatic extremes affect the biology of climate sensitive reptiles, and understand their vulnerability to climate change.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $1,006,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Developmental Genetics (incl. Sex Determination) | Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Developmental Genetics (incl. Sex Determination) | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics) | Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Genetics

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