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Using sex allocation to examine constraints on adaptation

Reference	S14498
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Stuart West
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr Ana Rivero, Professor Ben Sheldon
Institution	University of Edinburgh
Department	Inst of Cell, Animal and Population Biol
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	198,572
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/09/2001
End date	01/09/2004
Duration	36 months

Abstract

Determining the relative importance of factors that may limit and constrain adaptation remains one of the greatest challenges for evolutionary biology. Studies of sex allocation offer exceptional opportunities for addressing this problem because we have an excellent understanding of the selective factors involved, and can expect a quantitative fit between data and theory. We will carry out experiments on sex allocation in two parasitic wasp species, and comparative studies, in order to test the importance of three factors that may constrain adaptation for most characters of an organism: (1) mutation; (2) antagonistic pleiotropy (genes which improve one aspect of adaptation whilst reducing another), and environmental predictability.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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