RUI: Microbiological Survey and Inventory: Eugregarinida (Protista: Apicomplexa) Parasitizing Selected Mandibulate Arthropods of the Nebraska Sandhills

RUI：微生物调查和清查：Eugregarinida（原生生物：Apicomplexa）寄生于内布拉斯加州沙丘的选定下颌节肢动物

• 批准号: 9705179
• 负责人: Richard Clopton
• 金额: $ 19.74万
• 依托单位: Peru State College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-05-15 至 2001-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9705179&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Microbiological; Survey; Inventory; Eugregarinida

9705179 Clopton This project supports integrated faculty and undergraduate student research on the diversity of certain microscopic parasitic protists that inhabit the digestive tracts of insects, millipedes, centipedes, and crustaceans (macroarthropods). These protists are known as "eugregarines," and the organisms they inhabit are the most speciose of all organisms on earth. During the project, it is expected that 150-200 species of eugregarines from 12 different families will be recovered from 125 arthropod species representing 46 families; these organisms will be collected from a range of 12 different habitats in the Nebraska sandhills. The project has implications for ecology, agriculture, and medicine, because of the importance in those disciplines of the arthropod groups to be studied. Further, there is currently no museum collection of eugregarines in North America, and no survey of these organisms has ever been carried out for this continent. Products of this project will include specimen collections that will be deposited at the Nebraska State Museum, taxonomic catalogs of eugregarines and their hosts in the Nebraska sandhills, an online specimen database, and WWW pages that will provide identification keys, images, and descriptions of the eugregarines. Also, 12 undergraduate students will be involved in the research, and thus will receive field experience and training in systematics. The project is jointly funded by the Biotic Surveys and Inventories Program and the Long Term Projects in Environmental Biology Cluster.

9705179克洛普顿这个项目支持综合教师和本科生的研究，对某些微观寄生原生生物的多样性，栖息在昆虫，千足虫，蜈蚣和甲壳类动物（大型节肢动物）的消化道。 这些原生生物被称为“真生物”，它们所栖息的生物是地球上所有生物中最具物种多样性的。 在该项目期间，预计将从代表46个科的125种节肢动物中回收来自12个不同科的150-200种优格列汀;这些生物体将从内布拉斯加州沙丘的12个不同栖息地收集。 该项目对生态学、农业和医学都有影响，因为节肢动物群体在这些学科中的重要性。 此外，目前在北美没有博物馆收藏的优格雷加林，也没有对这片大陆进行过任何调查。这个项目的产品将包括标本收藏，将存放在内布拉斯加州博物馆，分类目录的eugregarines和他们的主机在内布拉斯加州沙丘，一个在线标本数据库，和WWW网页，将提供识别键，图像和描述的eugregarines。 此外，12名本科生将参与研究，从而将获得实地经验和系统学培训。 该项目由生物调查和库存计划以及环境生物学长期项目联合资助。