ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT160100463

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT160100463

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Predictability in evolution: From behaviour to genome. This project aims to determine whether evolution is primarily unpredictable and stochastic, or predictable and constrained along certain pathways. By using a natural experiment that caused wood-feeding cockroaches to evolve into soil-burrowing cockroaches in response to climate change millions of years ago, this project will determine how the genomes of these organisms responded. This will show whether the same molecular changes are repeatedly used in the evolution of complex traits, including burrow construction. This will contribute to the understanding of how predictable evolution is at the molecular level, and provide insights into how genomes change in response to prolonged climate change.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2017

End Date: 31-05-2022

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $929,680.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis | Invertebrate Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Invertebrate Biology | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis | Zoology

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