Sexual conflict in the mitochondrion

线粒体中的性冲突

• 批准号: DP1092897
• 负责人: Prof Damian Dowling
• 金额: $ 54.97万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2015-12-21
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP1092897
• 关键词: Sexual; conflict; mitochondrion

Australia boasts an international reputation for scientific excellence, and this holds true for the field of evolutionary biology. This groundbreaking project will resolve an outstanding evolutionary conundrum, and integrate two major sets of theory to have witnessed recent paradigm shifts - sexual selection and mitochondrial evolutionary theory. By doing so, the project will push the field in new directions, promoting cutting-edge Australian science abroad. This project promises educational benefits, by training postgraduate and honours students that are highly competitive in the international academic market. Finally, the project may yield novel insights into the genetics of male infertility, which affects five percent of Australian men.

澳大利亚因科学卓越而享有国际声誉，进化生物学领域也是如此。这个开创性的项目将解决一个悬而未决的进化难题，并整合两套主要理论，以见证最近的范式转变--性选择和线粒体进化理论。通过这样做，该项目将把该领域推向新的方向，在国外推广尖端的澳大利亚科学。该项目承诺通过培养在国际学术市场上具有高度竞争力的研究生和荣誉学生来实现教育效益。最后，该项目可能会对男性不育的遗传学产生新的见解，这影响了5%的澳大利亚男性。