Primary Recipient

THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Amount

$615,637.00

Award Date

8/12/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The major goal of this research is to understand the molecular genetic basis of adaptation to seasonality in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Although this species is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, a form of reproductive diapause (analogous to