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Grant Award View - GA142476-V1
The Cape honey bee and the origins of virgin birth
GA ID:
GA142476-V1
Agency:
Australian Research Council
Approval Date:
11-Dec-2020
Variation Publish Date:
11-May-2021
Variation Date:
31-Dec-2021
Category:
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Research
Grant Term:
31-Dec-2021 to 30-Dec-2024
Value (AUD):
$288,760.00
(GST inclusive where applicable)
Varies:
GA142476
- The Cape honey bee and the origins of virgin birth
One-off/Ad hoc:
No
Aggregate Grant Award:
No
PBS Program Name:
ARC 20/21 Discovery
Grant Program:
Discovery Projects
Grant Activity:
The Cape honey bee and the origins of virgin birth
Purpose:
Using honeybees, the aim is to show how a mutation in a single gene creates a new species. This gene causes a shift from sexual to asexual reproduction, allowing workers to clone themselves (virgin birth), thus turning a formerly cooperative species into a social cancer. Observing a real-time speciation event driven by a single gene is an incredibly rare opportunity and enables this project to determine the socio-genetic mechanisms that reduce gene flow between neighbouring populations and to explain how expression of the gene is regulated. Further, because clonal reproduction often leads to invasiveness in social insects - a dangerous outcome - understanding the origins of virgin birth is also critical to understanding invasiveness.
GO ID:
GO Title:
Discovery Projects for funding commencing in 2021
Internal Reference ID:
DP21 Round 1
Selection Process:
Targeted or Restricted Competitive
Confidentiality - Contract:
No
Confidentiality - Outputs:
No
Grant Recipient Details
Recipient Name:
The University of Sydney
Recipient ABN:
15 211 513 464
Grant Recipient Location
Suburb:
FOREST LODGE
Town/City:
FOREST LODGE
Postcode:
2037
State/Territory:
NSW
Country:
AUSTRALIA
Grant Delivery Location
State/Territory:
NSW
Postcode:
2037
Country:
AUSTRALIA