CAREER: Experimental Analyses Relating Host Contact and Parasite Community Structure

职业：有关宿主接触和寄生虫群落结构的实验分析

• 批准号: 0347609
• 负责人: Matthew Gompper
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-15 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0347609&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Experimental; Analyses; Relating; Host

This work supports an integrated research and education effort that aims to (1) better understand interactions between parasitic organisms and their hosts and (2) train students to address the depth and complexity of wildlife disease issues. Parasites can dramatically influence populations of organisms, and indirectly influence entire communities or even ecosystems. How changes in the behavior and ecology of hosts influence the parasites of individual animals as well as entire populations is poorly understood. This project supports a study of several common wildlife species that addresses how changes to the environment that result in animals coming into contact with one another influence the likelihood that these animals will become infected with parasitic species, including parasites of economic and public health importance.The education component of the study focuses on better integration of the fields of ecology and health sciences. This will be accomplished by (1) training students in ecological parasitology, (2) the creation of a consortium for studying wildlife diseases amongst currently existing programs at the University of Missouri, and 3) structuring a system of internships for undergraduate and graduate students to become involved in research in disease ecology.

这项工作支持综合研究和教育工作，旨在（1）更好地了解寄生生物及其宿主之间的相互作用，（2）培养学生解决野生动物疾病问题的深度和复杂性。 寄生虫可以极大地影响生物种群，并间接影响整个社区甚至生态系统。宿主的行为和生态变化如何影响个体动物以及整个种群的寄生虫，人们对此知之甚少。 该项目支持对几种常见的野生动物物种进行研究，探讨导致动物相互接触的环境变化如何影响这些动物感染寄生虫物种的可能性，包括对经济和公共卫生具有重要意义的寄生虫。该研究的教育部分侧重于更好地整合生态学和健康科学领域。这将通过（1）培养学生在生态寄生虫学，（2）在密苏里州的大学目前现有的计划中，建立一个研究野生动物疾病的财团，和3）构建一个系统的实习生和研究生成为参与疾病生态学的研究。