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Evolution and diversity of umami taste among carnivoran mammals in ecological, behavioural and phylogenetic contexts

2012/05/B/NZ8/02687

Keywords:

adaptation adaptive radiation Carnivora diet DNA ecology evolution evolutionary biology feeding behaviour feeding ecology feeding mode genetics marine environment molecular ecology natural selection Pinnipedia pseudogene pseudogenization taste receptor umami

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_1: Evolutionary biology
  • NZ8_2: Ecology
  • NZ8_12: Zoology

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Mieczysław Wolsan 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: OPUS 3 - announced on 2012-03-15

Amount awarded: 366 095 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2013-01-23

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2017-01-22

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled