Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150103266]Researchers: Jonathan Evans (Chief Investigator)
Brief description The dynamics of sexual selection on gametes in a broadcast spawner. This project aims to develop integrated approaches for understanding sexual selection at the level of the gamete. It will use a new and highly versatile model system - the blue mussel - to seek insights into how multivariate selection targets ejaculates, the dynamic nature of selection, and the putative role that chemical communication between eggs and sperm plays in mediating these processes. A range of interdisciplinary approaches will be used to uncover these patterns, and the mechanisms underlying them. By focusing on a species exhibiting the ancestral reproductive strategy of broadcast spawning, the work will contribute to an understanding of major evolutionary transitions in reproductive biology.
Funding Amount $295,900
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150103266
- ARC : DP150103266