CHEMICAL DEFENCES

Environment-induced plastic responses in chemical defences of a vertebrate

 Coordinatore MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA AGRARTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT 

 Organization address address: BRUNSZVIK STREET 2
city: MARTONVASAR
postcode: 2462

contact info
Nome: Bernadette
Cognome: Bódi
Email: send email
Telefono: +36 22 569590
Fax: +36 22 569590

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Hungary [HU]
 Totale costo 100˙000 €
 EC contributo 100˙000 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG
 Funding Scheme MC-CIG
 Anno di inizio 2014
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2014-07-01   -   2018-06-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA AGRARTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT

 Organization address address: BRUNSZVIK STREET 2
city: MARTONVASAR
postcode: 2462

contact info
Nome: Bernadette
Cognome: Bódi
Email: send email
Telefono: +36 22 569590
Fax: +36 22 569590

HU (MARTONVASAR) coordinator 100˙000.00

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we    bufo    fitness    tadpoles    ecology    chemical    biology    defences    plasticity    environmentally    evolutionary    conservation    induced   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Phenotypic plasticity is a core concept of evolutionary biology and there is ample evidence for adjustments to environmental conditions in a row of life history traits in a wide variety of living organisms. Also, environmentally induced changes in chemical defences form the basis of a large research field in plants. However, we know startlingly little about similar plasticity in chemical defences of animals, despite its potential significance for ecology, evolution and conservation, through effects on individual fitness, interspecific interactions, demography and speciation.

We will test whether tadpoles of the common toad (Bufo bufo) adjust the production of toxins to the presence and abundance of predators, competitors or pathogens. Furthermore, we will examine whether environmentally induced changes in the production of toxic skin gland secretions lead to elevated fitness of tadpoles and, hence, these plastic responses can be considered adaptive. Finally, we will investigate if the expression of inducible defences carries costs that are immediately visible or appear in the long term.

We will perform outdoors- and indoors experiments and validate experimental results by sampling natural populations in collaboration with world leading experts.

Our results will have implications for evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, behavioural ecology and conservation biology. Because our project targets biogenic and bioactive chemicals, results may also provide new impulses towards agriculture, medicine or pharmacology. Thus, our project is likely to spark basic and applied research, potentially also resulting in economic revenues.'

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