Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Amount

$800,000.00

Award Date

8/03/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The goal of this project is to identify genes influencing development in an ant species in order to understand how genes interact with environmental cues to produce adult characteristics. The process of development is surprisingly plastic, allowing orga