LSCBR: Continued Support of the Duke Lemur Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History

LSCBR：杜克狐猴灵长类生物学和历史研究中心的持续支持

• 批准号: 1050035
• 负责人: Anne Yoder
• 金额: $ 171.61万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1050035&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LSCBR; Continued; Support; Duke; Lemur

This project will provide a portion of the core support for the Duke Lemur Center (DLC). The DLC houses the largest and most diverse collection of endangered primates in the world. The Center focuses on lemurs from Madagascar, all of which are critically endangered. Due to the close evolutionary proximity of lemurs and humans, biological study of lemurs can inform our understanding of human biology. The DLC serves as a model for noninvasive research on primates. Researchers at the DLC use sophisticated technologies that allow for data collection without harm to the animals in diverse biological disciplines, ranging from genomics, virology, cognition, biomechanics, physiology, behavior, and ecology. The Duke Lemur Center is the only place in the world where lemurs are readily available for study and where biological samples, medical records, and other data, collected today and over its 40-year history, allow for detailed investigations of primate comparative biology.Outreach and education are critical aspects of the DLC mission. The DLC serves multiple educational communities, including the general public, K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate. In the past five years, the Center has hosted an average of more than 13,000 visitors per year, with K-12 comprising more than 4,000 of these visitors in a given year and college student tours comprising up to 2,400 visitors. With recent enhancements to our web site (http://lemur.duke.edu/), the DLC strives to become the world?s leader in long-distance learning relating to endangered primate biology and conservation.

该项目将为Duke Lemur Center（DLC）提供一部分核心支持。 DLC拥有世界上最大，最多样化的濒危灵长类动物。 该中心专注于马达加斯加的狐猴，所有这些都受到严重濒危。 由于狐猴和人类的进化近端，狐猴的生物学研究可以告知我们对人类生物学的理解。 DLC是针对灵长类动物无创研究的模型。 DLC的研究人员使用复杂的技术，这些技术允许数据收集，而不会伤害各种生物学学科中的动物，从基因组学，病毒学，认知，生物力学，生理学，行为和生态学等等。杜克大学狐猴中心是世界上唯一可以随时可用于研究的地方，并且在今天和40年的历史上收集了生物样品，医疗记录和其他数据，允许对灵长类动物比较生物学进行详细研究。教育是DLC任务的关键方面。 DLC为包括公众，K-12，本科，研究生和研究生在内的多个教育社区提供服务。 在过去的五年中，该中心平均每年接待13,000多名访客，其中K-12在给定的一年和大学生之旅中包括4,000多名访客，其中最多可容纳2400名访客。 随着我们网站（http://lemur.duke.edu/）的最新增强，DLC致力于成为与濒危灵长类动物生物学和保护有关的长途学习的世界领导者。