Cellular signals controlling oocyte activation

这项研究将大大促进我们对基本生物过程的理解，这些生物过程是所有哺乳动物生育率的基础，也是澳大利亚景观和社会当前和未来健康和福祉的关键。了解在激活和随后的生长之前多年保持健康的静止卵母细胞的过程将能够开发提高家畜生产力和提高濒危物种生育力的方法。这些细胞机制的知识将支持野生动物种群控制的新方法所必需的生物技术平台，从而在多个层面上促进澳大利亚的经济可持续发展。

This research will significantly advance our understanding of the basic biological processes that underpin the fertility rate of all mammals and are key to the immediate and future health and well-being of Australian landscape and society. Understanding the processes that maintain healthy quiescent oocytes over many years before activation and subsequent growth will enable development of methods of increasing productivity in domestic animals and enhancing fertility in endangered species. Knowledge of these cellular mechanisms will underpin biotechnology platforms necessary for novel methods of feral animal population control thus contributing at multiple levels to an economically sustainable Australia.