CSBR: Living Stocks - A Genetic Stock Center for Peromyscus

Peromyscus属的啮齿动物已经成为研究遗传和其他因素导致生殖隔离和物种形成的理想模型，以及那些使生物体对变化的环境条件（包括寄生虫和其他物种）做出适应性反应的因素。为国家科学和教育界提供了可靠的活体（7个物种）和相关材料来源的高omyscus遗传储备中心获得了奖项。通过赞助一个互联网数据库，维护期刊重印的参考收藏，以及托管一个Peromyscus讨论博客，该库存中心还充当了关于这群动物的信息交换中心。这些资源在美国和其他地方广泛使用，包括许多NSF-Bio支持的研究人员。迄今为止，库存中心已经提供了大约27,000只动物，为大约300篇研究论文提供了基础，涵盖了生物学的大多数领域。最近，斯托克中心在大众媒体上有许多高影响力的发现。该中心还支持访问科学家的现场研究，每年接待许多这样的访客。相当数量的研究生和本科生在中心进行研究，发表了几篇荣誉论文和博士论文。其他的拓展活动包括向动物园提供动物，并让中心的工作人员参与K-12教育项目。有关证券中心及其项目的更多信息，请访问：http://stkctr.biol.sc.edu。

Rodents in the genus Peromyscus have become ideal models for studying the genetic and other factors responsible for reproductive isolation and speciation, as well as those factors enabling adaptive responses by organisms to changing environmental conditions, including parasites and to other species. An award is made to the Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center to provide a reliable source of live Peromyscus animals (of seven species) and related materials to the national scientific and educational communities. The Stock Center also functions as a clearing house for information regarding this group of animals by sponsoring an internet database, maintaining a reference collection of journal reprints, and hosting a Peromyscus discussion blog. These resources are widely used in the U.S. and elsewhere including numerous NSF-Bio supported researchers. To date the Stock Center has supplied about 27,000 animals, providing the basis for about 300 research articles spanning most areas of biology. Recently, the Stock Center has contributed to numerous high impact discoveries that were featured in the popular media. The Center also supports onsite research by visiting scientists, hosting many such visitors each year. A substantial number of graduate and undergraduate students conduct their research within the Center, producing several Honors Theses and Ph.D. dissertations. Additional outreach involves providing animals to zoos and participation of the Center's staff in K-12 educational programs. More information on the Stock Center and its programs may be obtained at: http://stkctr.biol.sc.edu.