Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0348925

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0348925

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Molecular identification of blowflies of forensic importance and thermal effects on their behaviour: tools to enhance forensic entomology in Australia. In suspicious deaths in which a body is found three or more days post-mortem, carrion-breeding blowflies provide time since death estimates. These estimates are currently slow and relatively broad due to (a) an inability to adequately distinguish immatures morphologically, and (b) insufficient information on the biological responses of different species to temperature. We will develop rapid molecular assays to distinguish blowfly species, and comprehensively chart the behavioural effects of temperature on the most forensically important blowflies. Molecular and adult morphological data will also be used to examine the evolution of the carrion-breeding blowflies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 18-12-2003

End Date: 17-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $87,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Invertebrate Biology | Zoology | Population And Ecological Genetics | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Law enforcement |

Other Keywords

Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Invertebrate Biology | Law enforcement | Population And Ecological Genetics | Zoology

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