Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0219420

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0219420

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Fruit fly pests in northwestern Australia: invasion, hybridisation or evolution? In northwestern Australia, recent events suggest that a new and serious fruit fly pest is now present, wher previously none existed. Due to difficulties in accurate identification, we do not know whether these new pest fruit flies are endemic fruit flies that have changed their behaviour, invasions of Queensland fruit fly, or hybrids between them. This project will use DNA microsatellites to distinguish between these possibilities. It will also establish whether the different species involved are actually different species, or should be regarded merely as different races. Such distinctions are important both scientifically and for export quarantine purposes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-09-2002

End Date: 31-08-2005

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $280,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Plant Protection (Pests, Diseases And Weeds) | Population And Ecological Genetics | Genetics | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Horticultural crops | Biological sciences | Control of pests and exotic species |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Control of pests and exotic species | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified | Genetics | Horticultural crops | Plant Protection (Pests, Diseases And Weeds) | Population And Ecological Genetics

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