Sex in Dragons: Evolution of sex determination in reptiles

澳大利亚在性别决定研究方面处于领先地位，我们的认识取得了重大进展，这要归功于澳大利亚的研究人员和实验室。这个项目将有助于提高我们作为一个能够在人类性别决定方面提供尖端研究方向和激发想法的国家的声望。此外，许多爬行动物的性别决定取决于温度，因此对气候变化的脆弱性令人震惊。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这些独特的澳大利亚爬行动物的未来保护。

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.