Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0208052]Researchers: Dr Robert Brooks (Chief Investigator) , MIchael D Jennions (Chief Investigator) , John Hunt (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Brief description Putting sexual selection in a life-history context: What is meant by genetic quality? Theories of sexual signalling have been developed largely without reference to life-history theory and quantitative genetics. We will test recent theory that shows the costs of signals are best measured in units of future survival and reproduction. In a series of field and laboratory experiments on the cricket Teleogryllus commodus, we will test the idea that the "male genetic quality" referred to by good-genes models of sexual selection is quality in the general ability to acquire resources, rather than in how resources are allocated among fitness components.
Funding Amount $482,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0208052
- ARC : DP0208052