| 项目编号: | 1407133
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| 项目名称: | DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Evolution of Great-Ape Gut Microbiomes |
| 作者: | Howard Ochman
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| 承担单位: | University of Texas at Austin
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| 批准年: | 2013
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| 开始日期: | 2014-05-01
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| 结束日期: | 2015-08-31
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| 资助金额: | USD10991
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Biological Sciences - Environmental Biology
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| 英文关键词: | gut
; research training
; microbe
; evolutionary history
; diet shape
; great ape
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| 英文摘要: | Nearly every environment on earth contains communities of microbes, including the guts of animals, where microbes are increasingly known to play a major role in nutrition and disease. This project aims to develop a new technique for measuring the abundances of the different types of microbes in the guts of the closest relatives of humans, the great apes. Researchers will combine microscopy and gene amplification and sequencing to quantify the total numbers of the various bacterial species that reside within the guts of chimpanzees, bonobos, and two species of gorillas. Results will provide new insights into how disease, evolutionary history, geography, and diet shape the internal microbial communities of primates.
The broader impacts of this project include the development of a molecular technique that could find wide application in the study of microbes in medicine and biology. The project will provide research training for a doctoral student and two undergraduate students. The doctoral student will mentor the undergraduates and gain teaching experience towards his goal of starting his own lab. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/97016
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候减缓与适应
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Howard Ochman. DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Evolution of Great-Ape Gut Microbiomes. 2013-01-01.
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