How does allocation to each sex evolve in hermaphrodites? New insight from the sea

了解雌雄同体动物适应环境条件的性别分配能力，将为纯研究和应用研究的整合铺平道路。这种理解可以为跨一系列学科（自然资源管理、水产养殖、保护）的利益相关者提供有关遗传和环境对这种交配系统中具有重要生态、经济和社会价值的许多物种繁殖影响的关键信息。这项研究将在进化生态学的最前沿产生知识，提高澳大利亚在该领域卓越研究的声誉，并通过培训年轻科学家进一步使澳大利亚科学受益。

Understanding the ability of hermaphroditic animals to adapt their sex allocation to suit environmental conditions will pave the way for integration between pure and applied research. Such understanding can provide stakeholders across a range of disciplines (natural resource management, aquaculture, conservation) with key information about genetic and environmental influences on the reproduction of many species of significant ecological, economic and social value with this mating system. This research will yield knowledge at the very forefront of evolutionary ecology, enhancing Australia's reputation for research excellence in this field, and further benefit Australian science through the training of young scientists.