Collaborative Research: Relationship Among Demographic, Social and Genetic Structure

合作研究：人口、社会和遗传结构之间的关系

• 批准号: 0322613
• 负责人: Susan Alberts
• 金额: $ 34.46万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0322613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Relationship; Among; Demographic

Susan C. Alberts and Jeanne Altmann: Proposal number 0322781(Altmann)/0322613(Alberts), Collaborative Research: Relationship among demographic, social and genetic structure. Behavior plays a pivotal role in survival and reproduction. Its immediate, short-term impact is in maintaining homeostasis and organismal integrity as behavior provides the individual with a mechanism of rapid and flexible response to changes in its internal and external environments. Even more profound is behavior's long-term impact on the lives of individuals and on the evolutionary trajectories of populations. The main long-term objective of the investigators is to develop a comprehensive picture of how behavior shapes fitness outcomes and population processes in one population of wild mammals - the savanna baboons of the Amboseli basin in east Africa. The proposed work not only will accomplish important short-term goals but will reach overtly toward the long-term ones as well.The overall conceptual framework is an integrative socioecology that is sensitive to the intrinsic interdependencies among behavior, physiology, genetic structure, and demography. During the next three years, the research will (1) probe more deeply into the function and lifetime development of relationships through individuals' paternal as well as maternal lineage and (2) continue to delineate sources of lifetime fitness differences for both sexes. This will be accomplished by testing eight explicit predictions derived from three hypotheses. For females, these relate to the impact of social status and of paternal and maternal relatives on fitness. For males they address the relationship between mating success and paternity success, the role of male mate choice in paternity success, and the direct behavioral contributions that males make to the survival of their offspring. Genetic and physiological analyses are based on non-invasive biological sampling and associated assay and genotyping techniques, the development and refinement of which have been a cornerstone of these research groups.

Susan C. Alberts和Jeanne Altmann：提案编号0322781（Altmann）/0322613（Alberts），合作研究：人口、社会和遗传结构之间的关系。 行为在生存和繁殖中起着关键作用。它的直接，短期的影响是在维持稳态和有机体的完整性，因为行为提供了一个快速和灵活的反应机制，在其内部和外部环境的变化的个人。更深刻的是行为对个人生活和种群进化轨迹的长期影响。研究人员的主要长期目标是全面了解行为如何塑造一个野生哺乳动物种群-东非安博塞利盆地的稀树草原狒狒-的健康结果和种群过程。所提出的工作不仅将实现重要的短期目标，但将达到明显的长期目标，以及整体的概念框架是一个综合的社会生态学，是敏感的内在相互依存关系之间的行为，生理，遗传结构和人口。在接下来的三年里，这项研究将（1）通过个人的父系和母系血统更深入地探讨关系的功能和终身发展，（2）继续描绘两性终身健康差异的来源。 这将通过测试来自三个假设的八个明确的预测来完成。 对于女性来说，这些与社会地位和父系和母系亲属对健康的影响有关。 对于男性，他们解决交配成功和父权成功之间的关系，男性配偶选择在父权成功中的作用，以及男性对后代生存的直接行为贡献。 遗传和生理分析是基于非侵入性生物采样和相关的分析和基因分型技术，其发展和完善一直是这些研究小组的基石。