Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190100899

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP190100899

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

How mates and sexual rivals affect reproductive costs, lifespan and ageing. This project aims to dissect the complex costs of reproduction, bridging an old divide between evolutionary and biomedical approaches to understanding ageing and lifespan. Merely detecting the smell of another individual, without ever encountering them, can cause an individual to mature sooner, age faster, or live a shorter life. These costs, and the fact that subsequent mating can restore adult ageing and lifespan to "normal" are causing a re-evaluation of the costs of reproduction - an important but enigmatic concept in evolution. This project expects to resolve how and why the physical presence of a mate, or odour cues of such a mate, can have such dramatic effects on ageing and late-life performance.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2019

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $390,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ethology and Sociobiology | Evolutionary Biology | Biological Adaptation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological Adaptation | Ethology and Sociobiology | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences

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