Sex in Dragons: Evolution of sex determination in reptiles

龙的性别：爬行动物性别决定的进化

• 批准号: DP0881196
• 负责人: Prof Stephen Sarre
• 金额: $ 26.58万
• 依托单位: University of Canberra
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0881196
• 关键词: Sex; Dragons; Evolution; sex; determination

Australia is a leader in sex determination research with major advances in our understanding attributable to Australian researchers and laboratories. This project will contribute to our prestige as a nation capable of contributing cutting edge research directions and stimulating ideas in human sex determination. Moreover, many reptiles have temperature-dependent sex determination, and so would appear appallingly vulnerable to climate change. Our project, will bring improved understanding of sex determination in reptiles, identify evolutionary responses of reptiles to climate change, and assist by informing society on how we might manage this issue into the future conservation of these unique Australian reptiles.

澳大利亚在性别决定研究方面处于领先地位，澳大利亚研究人员和实验室在我们的理解方面取得了重大进展。这个项目将有助于提高我们作为一个有能力在人类性别决定方面提供前沿研究方向和刺激思想的国家的声望。此外，许多爬行动物的性别决定依赖于温度，因此对气候变化显得非常脆弱。我们的项目将提高对爬行动物性别决定的理解，确定爬行动物对气候变化的进化反应，并通过告知社会我们如何管理这个问题来帮助未来保护这些独特的澳大利亚爬行动物。