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Sexual selection and genetic variation: evolve and resequence approach

2017/27/B/NZ8/00077

Keywords:

sexual selection genetic variation pleiotropy

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_1: Evolutionary biology

Panel:

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

Host institution :

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

woj. wielkopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Jacek Radwan 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 7

Call: OPUS 14 - announced on 2017-09-15

Amount awarded: 1 428 730 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-06-26

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-06-25

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

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Binokular Olympus (32 000 PLN)
  2. monitor.
  3. stacja dokująca.
  4. Szafa termostatyczna (20 000 PLN)
  5. komputer/laptop z oprogramowaniem (2 szt.) (16 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (2)
  1. Sexually selected male weapon is associated with lower inbreeding load but higher sex load in the bulb mite
    Authors:
    Aleksandra Łukasiewicz, Małgorzata Niskiewicz, acek Radwan
    Academic press:
    Evolution (rok: 2020, tom: 74, strony: 1851–1855), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/evo.14033 - link to the publication
  2. Genomic evidence that a sexually selected trait captures genome-wide variation and facilitates the purging of genetic load
    Authors:
    Jonathan M. Parrett, Sebastian Chmielewski, Eylem Aydogdu, Aleksandra Łukasiewicz, Stephane Rombauts, Agnieszka Szubert-Kruszyńska, Wiesław Babik, Mateusz Konczal and Jacek Radwan
    Academic press:
    Nature in Ecology and Evolution (rok: 2022, tom: 6, strony: 1330–1342), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41559-022-01816-w - link to the publication