Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP220103234

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP220103234

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Ancestral state reconstruction and the evolution of Australian marsupials. This project aims to investigate the diversification and evolvability of Australian marsupials, by enabling genomes, ecology and 3D skeletal shape to synergistically inform evolutionary inference. This project expects to generate new knowledge of the processes that have promoted and maintained marsupial biodiversity, by tracing their evolution across a fossil gap that spans half of their history. Expected outcomes of this project include improved methods for merging fossils into the tree of life and for reconstructing the ecology and morphology of ancestors on phylogenetic trees. This should provide significant benefits, such as a coherent evolutionary context for informing research on marsupial biology, ecology and conservation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2022

End Date: 30-05-2025

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $475,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeontology (incl. Palynology) | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis | Genomics | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |

Other Keywords

Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Genomics | Palaeontology (incl. Palynology) | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis

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