Opendata, web and dolomites

CONSENT SIGNED

Causes and consequences of senescence in wild insects

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

Project "CONSENT" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 

Organization address
address: THE QUEEN'S DRIVE NORTHCOTE HOUSE
city: EXETER
postcode: EX4 4QJ
website: www.ex.ac.uk

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Total cost 195˙454 €
 EC max contribution 195˙454 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-09-01   to  2020-08-31

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER UK (EXETER) coordinator 195˙454.00

Map

 Project objective

This project will study the evolutionary ecology of senescence – how and why biological performance declines with age. Understanding senescence in nature requires us to study interactions between the environment and natural and sexual selection and how they shape patterns of ageing. I will study life-history trade-offs in both lab and natural environments exploiting an existing project on a wild cricket population that has amassed 12 years of data. My study system consists of annual generations of a few hundred individually tagged, video-monitored and genotyped individuals. This system will allow me to address evolutionary questions about senescence that are very hard to study in much longer lived vertebrates. My approach of studying senescence in both lab and field environments is timely in the face of the current state of the art showing that the fitness outcomes of genetically controlled pathways with pleiotropic early and late-life effects depend on the environment in which they are studied. I will use techniques in eco-physiology (telomere measurements), animal breeding (quantitative genetics), and evolutionary ecology (life-history trade-offs and animal behaviour) to study the extent to which (i) telomeres can be used as biomarker of ageing in insects, (ii) life-history trade-offs including behaviour underpinning senescence, and (iii) the extent to which these phenotypic correlations are also expressed as genetic correlations i.e. are they heritable? These questions are key to solving the enigma of ageing, and their answers will be important for research aimed at understanding processes that drive the demographic ageing of Europe’s society. In my past research I led an eight-year experiment testing the trade-off between reproduction and ageing and telomere shortening in a large wild bird population (papers in Ecol. Lett. 2014 & 2015 & Proc.Soc.B 2014). I am excited to switch to insects to address questions that have never been tackled in their natural context.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2019 Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Xing P. Liu, Ian Skicko, Sophie Haugland Pedersen, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood, Tom Tregenza
Comparing individual and population measures of senescence across 10 years in a wild insect population
published pages: 293-302, ISSN: 0014-3820, DOI: 10.1111/evo.13674
Evolution 73/2 2019-11-11
2019 Rolando Rodríguez‐Muñoz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Xing P. Liu, Ian Skicko, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood, Tom Tregenza
Testing the effect of early‐life reproductive effort on age‐related decline in a wild insect
published pages: 317-328, ISSN: 0014-3820, DOI: 10.1111/evo.13679
Evolution 73/2 2019-11-11
2019 Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, David Fisher, Paul Hopwood, Tom Tregenza
Slower senescence in a wild insect population in years with a more female-biased sex ratio
published pages: 20190286, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0286
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286/1900 2019-11-11

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "CONSENT" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "CONSENT" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.1.3.2.)

MultiSeaSpace (2019)

Developing a unified spatial modelling strategy that accounts for interactions between species at different marine trophic levels, and different types of survey data.

Read More  

POSPORI (2019)

Polymer Optical Sensors for Prolonged Overseeing the Robustness of civil Infrastructures

Read More  

CIGNUS (2019)

CuInGaSe Nanowires Under the Sun

Read More