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Kin selection and competition in cooperative breeders

Sex-biased dispersal is a key mechanism to avoid inbreeding, meaning that species in which both females and males stay at home raise some fundamental questions to the theory of cooperative breeding

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Lipid flipping in vision: seeing is believing! Honours, Masters, PhD
Manipulating CO2 transport with aquaporins to improve photosynthesis Honours
Maternal effects and phenotypic development in lizards Honours
Membrane transport proteins of the malaria parasite and their roles in conferring drug resistance Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Metabolic determinants of seed quality Honours, Masters, PhD
Metagenomics and the analysis of microbial genomes Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Microbial control of root developmental plasticity Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
MicroRNA target recognition; the role of the target RNA secondary structure. Honours, Masters, PhD
Molecular evolution and Phylogenetics Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Molecular tools to reveal protein function and identify drug targets Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Multi-trait plasticity: understanding temperature response of alpine plants in a warming world (ARC Discovery 2017-20) Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
New antibiotics that target membrane channels Not open to students.
New approaches to discovering biodiversity and understanding its response to climate change Honours, Bachelor, PhD
New molecular targets for drugs to treat human and animal nematode parasites Not open to students.
Novel metabolite discovery and characterisation Honours, Masters, PhD
Novel nutrient/metabolite transporters in apicomplexan parasites Not open to students.
Nutrient acquisition in apicomplexan parasites Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Nutrition of free-ranging primates Not open to students.
Olfactory pattern recognition in nematodes Honours, PhD
Optimising energy use efficiency to increase wheat yield PhD
Organic components of the coral skeleton Not open to students.
Overcoming limitations in engineering the Rubisco small subunits in higher plant chloroplasts. Not open to students.
Parent-offspring communication under the risk of predation Honours, PhD
Pathways of photosynthetic electron flow under environmental stress Not open to students.
Patterns and correlates of extinction risk Honours, PhD

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