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Trade-off in energy allocation between toxin production and somatic maintenance in poisonous animals
2022/45/B/NZ8/01896
Keywords:
anurans bacterial killing ability chemical defence energy expenditure immune response leukocytes metabolic rate poison production toads toxins venom optimisation hypothesis
Descriptors:
- NZ8_2: Ecology
- NZ8_1: Evolutionary biology
- NZ8_12: Zoology
Panel:
NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography
Host institution :
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Wydział Nauk Biologicznych i Weterynaryjnych
woj. kujawsko-pomorskie
Principal investigator (from the host institution):
Number of co-investigators in the project: 6
Call: OPUS 23 - announced on 2022-03-28
Amount awarded: 1 559 404 PLN
Project start date (Y-m-d): 2023-01-19
Project end date (Y-m-d): 2026-01-18
Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status: Pending project
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