Parasites of Mammals of Bolivia: Phylogeny and Coevolution

要求提供三年的资金，继续调查 玻利维亚的哺乳动物寄生虫的研究始于1984年。 集合将 集中在寄生线虫，但将包括其他 蠕虫体外寄生虫和原生动物 标本代表 将收集和保存各种分类群的标准 方法. 收藏品将包括福尔马林保存的酒精- 用于标准形态分类和鉴定的储存标本 和冷冻标本进行分子分析 主 本研究的目标包括：1）数据安全 用于形态学（分类学）和分子分析的（标本） （系统学）否则会丢失或不能保存的 充分进行这些分析; 2）获得额外的材料， 用于比较和纳入正在进行的宿主研究的数据- 寄生虫共同进化; 3）继续与工人合作， 为玻利维亚的学生提供关于玻利维亚寄生虫区系研究的培训 并鼓励玻利维亚学生到美国学习; 4）提供 访问对新热带区寄生虫感兴趣的研究人员 哺乳动物通过处理和进入UCD线虫 收集自年以来在玻利维亚收集的蠕虫样本 1984年; 5）将这些数据输入计算机数据库。 UCD线虫收集与GIS系统兼容的形式 目前正在美国博物馆实施， 以及获取寄生虫及其宿主信息的便捷途径。 玻利维亚哺乳动物区系的多样性很差 已知的;因此，这个地区的寄生虫更少会知道 （例如：关于野生寄生虫的参考文献不足30篇 玻利维亚的动物）。 目前要求提供资金， 玻利维亚哺乳动物的寄生虫部分是因为窗户 目前资助的NSF赠款提供的机会， 安德森，耶茨和库克（BSR-8408923）继续他们的 玻利维亚山谷和永加斯哺乳动物区系调查 地区 这些研究人员已经建立了一个时间协议- 框架和收集区。 探险队所处的地区 将旅行是生物未知的，这项建议的资金 将提供关于寄生虫多样性的独特和不可替代的数据， 这些哺乳动物的数量被积累、加工、储存和获取 以有效的方式。 此外，列入材料 从1984-1987年未访问过的地理区域获得 将允许进一步测试共同进化的假设， 动物地理学。

Funds are requested for three years to continue a survey of parasites of mammals of Bolivia begun in 1984. Collections will concentrate on parasitic nematodes but will include other helminths, ectoparasites, and protozoa. Specimens representative of various taxa will be collected and preserved using standard methods. Collections will include formalin-preserved alcohol- stored specimens for standard morpho-taxonomy and identification and frozen specimens for molecular analyses. The primary objectives of the proposed research include: 1) Secure data (specimens) for both morphologic (taxonomy) and molecular analysis (systematics) that would otherwise be lost or not be preserved adequately for these analyses; 2) Obtain additional materials and data for comparison and inclusion in ongoing studies of host- parasite coevolution; 3) Continue collaboration with workers and students in Bolivia on studies of the parasite fauna of Bolivia and to encourage Bolivian students to study in the USA; 4) Provide access to researchers interested in parasites of neotropical mammals by processing and accessing into the UCD Nematode Collection those samples of Helminths collected in Bolivia since 1984; 5) Enter these data into the micro-computer database of the UCD Nematode Collection in a form compatible with the GIS system presently being implemented at the American Museum to allow fast and easy access to information on parasites and their hosts. The diversity of the mammalian fauna of Bolivia is poorly known; thus, the parasites of this region are even less will known (eg. less than 30 references exist concerning parasites of wild animals of Bolivia). Funds are requested at this time for work on the parasites of mammals in Bolivia partly because of the window of opportunity afforded by the presently funded NSF grant to Anderson, Yates, and Cook (BSR-8408923) for continuation of their survey of the mammalian fauna of Bolivia in the Valles and Yungas regions. These researchers have established a protocol of time- frames and collection areas. The areas in which the expedition will travel are biologically unknown, and funding of this proposal will allow unique and irreplaceable data on diversity of parasites of these mammals to be accumulated, processed, stored, and accessed in an efficient manner. In addition, inclusion of material obtained from geographic areas that were not visited in 1984-1987 will allow further tests of hypotheses of coevolution and zoogeography.