Continued Support of the Duke University Primate Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History

杜克大学灵长类动物生物学和历史研究中心的持续支持

• 批准号: 0549091
• 负责人: Anne Yoder
• 金额: $ 192.18万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549091&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Continued; Support; Duke; University; Primate

This award renews support for maintenance of a collection of prosimian primates housed at the Duke University Primate Center (DUPC). Study of the biology and behavior of Prosimians continues to be of the most active and exciting fields of primatology. The DUPC houses the largest and most diverse collection of prosimian primates in the world, including representative species from 6 of 7 extant families. The approximately 250 animals include lemurs (of several types), sifakas, loris, bushbabys and aye-ayes. These primates represent a major branch of primate evolution that diverged from the anthropoid branch about 60 million years ago. The Center is recognized as the focal point for prosimian research and conservation activities outside Madagascar. As part of its research mission, the DUPC provides on-site access to animals, and ships tissues and blood samples to faculty and students from diverse local, regional, national, and foreign institutions for off-site use. Users are charged a fee scaled to the kind and quantity of usage. This award insures the continued availability of animals and tissues for use by outside researchers at relatively modest cost. In addition to its involvement in enabling research, the Center conducts a variety of education and outreach efforts aimed at middle school, high school and college students, and allows public viewing of the animals.

该奖项更新了支持维持在杜克大学灵长类动物中心（DUPC）的Prosimian灵长类动物的支持。研究前法令的生物学和行为的研究仍然是最活跃和令人兴奋的灵魂学领域。 DUPC拥有世界上最大，最多样化的Prosimian灵长类动物，其中包括来自7个现存家庭中6种的代表性物种。 大约250只动物包括狐猴（几种类型），Sifakas，Loris，Bushbabys和Aye-ayes。 这些灵长类动物代表着大约6000万年前与人类类动物分支不同的灵长类动物进化的主要分支。 该中心被公认为是马达加斯加境外的前科医学研究和保护活动的焦点。作为其研究任务的一部分，DUPC为来自各种地方，地区，国家和外国机构的教职员工提供了现场通往动物的现场通道，并向教职员工和血液样本提供了船只和血液样本，以供非现场使用。用户被收取费用缩放到使用量和数量的费用。该奖项确保了动物和组织的持续可用性，以供外部研究人员以相对适中的成本使用。 除了参与研究能力外，该中心还进行了针对中学，高中和大学生的各种教育和外展工作，并允许公众观察动物。