YERKES REGIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER

耶基斯地区灵长类动物研究中心是罗伯特W。 埃默里大学伍德拉夫健康科学中心。 Yerkes收到其 国家研究中心动物资源分支的主要支持 资源，国家卫生研究院，并从研究赠款和合同，从联邦和 私人来源。 该中心致力于基础和应用生物医学 和灵长类动物的行为研究。 研究项目涉及 几种大型猿类和猴类主要向四个方向发展， 主要任务：（1）神经学研究，包括神经解剖学， 神经生理学、神经内分泌学和神经行为学。 在这 一组学科集中在基本的视觉机制上 （2）行为研究，包括社会行为 及其生物学根源，特别是激素， 环境影响及其相互作用，学习，记忆， 认知、交流和语言行为、精神药理学和 （3）实验病理生物学和免疫生物学，包括： 肿瘤疾病和灵长类动物模型， （4）生殖生物学，包括体外 受精，内分泌学和行为学，以及生育和 不育 该中心由一个包含动物的主站组成 位于埃默里大学校园内的宿舍和研究实验室， 一个115英亩的田间研究站，用于半自由的繁殖和研究， 在亚特兰大以北30英里的灵长类动物中， 和亚特兰大东南部的语言研究中心。 亚特兰大动物园 许多耶基斯大猩猩和猩猩的标本， 保护、育种、内分泌、生殖生物学和行为 research.

The Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center is a division of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University. Yerkes receives its primary support from Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Research Resources, NIH, and from research grants and contracts from federal and private sources. The Center is committed to basic and applied biomedical and behavioral research with primates. Research programs involving several great ape and monkey species are directed primarily toward four major missions: (1) Neurological research including neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroendocrinology, and neurobehavior. Within this cluster of disciplines there is a strong focus on basic visual mechanisms and disorders of vision; (2) Behavioral research including social behavior and its biological roots with special reference to hormones and environmental influences and their interactions, learning, memory, cognition, communication and linguistic behavior, psychopharmacology and psychobiology; (3) Experimental pathobiology and immunobiology including: neoplastic diseases and primate models for human infectious and degenerative diseases; (4) Reproductive biology including in vitro fertilization, endocrinology and behavior, and studies of fertility and sterility. The Center consists of a Main Station containing animal quarters and research laboratories located on the Emory University campus, a 115 acre Field Research Station for breeding and studies of semi-free- ranging social behavior in primates, located 30 miles north of Atlanta, and a Language Research center in southeast Atlanta. Zoo Atlanta holds many specimens of Yerkes gorillas and orangutans available for conservation, breeding, endocrine, reproductive biology and behavioral research.