Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP240101313

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP240101313

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Explaining virus diversity. To prevent virus pandemics, it is necessary to understand how viruses evolve. This project aims to reveal the long-term trends, processes and drivers of RNA virus diversity and evolution. Through the metagenomic sequencing of the viromes of Australian animals that mark evolutionary innovations and transitions this project will reshape our knowledge of virus evolution and disease emergence. Expected outcomes will be a new understanding of how virus diversity is created, how virus phenotypes have changed through time, how often viruses jump to new host species, and how major events in animal evolution have shaped virus diversity. Key benefits include new measures of the viral burden faced by Australia’s native animals and of ecosystem health.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 02-03-2024

End Date: 01-03-2027

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $718,978.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Evolutionary biology | Speciation and extinction | Phylogeny and comparative analysis | Virology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Evolutionary biology | Expanding Knowledge In the Biological Sciences | Phylogeny and comparative analysis | Speciation and extinction | Virology

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