Sex in Dragons: Evolution of sex determination in reptiles

澳大利亚是性别决定研究的领先者，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国家的声誉，这个国家有能力在人类性别决定方面贡献尖端的研究方向和激发灵感。此外，许多爬行动物的性别决定依赖于温度，因此看起来非常容易受到气候变化的影响。我们的项目将带来对爬行动物性别决定的更好理解，确定爬行动物对气候变化的进化反应，并通过向社会提供信息，说明我们如何在未来保护这些独特的澳大利亚爬行动物时处理这一问题。

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.