Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2003/00205
Feasibility of genome mapping in wild bird populations.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor J Slate, University of Sheffield, Animal and Plant Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor TA Burke, University of Sheffield, School of Biosciences
- Grant held at:
- University of Sheffield, Animal and Plant Sciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Genomics
- Population Genetics/Evolution
- Behavioural Ecology
- Abstract:
- Over the last thirty years field biologists have established a number of outstanding long-term ecological studies of wild bird populations throughout Britain and Europe. These populations have played a central role in our current understanding of (a) how species are responding to climate change and (b) how natural and sexual selection operate. An obvious, yet thus far unrealised, extension of these studies is to investigate microevolutionary change at the molecular level i.e. what are the genes (and how many are there) that are responsible for evolutionary change. The major constraint for this type of study is that no passerine species has a genetic map. This proposal describes how I will initiate passerine genome mapping by utilising the existing public human and chicken genomics resources.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2003/00205
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £30,564
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|
| £16,468 | £6,520 | £7,576 |
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