Support for the Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center

一个奖项是作出南卡罗来纳州大学，以支持Peromyscus遗传股票中心（PGSC）。 Peromyscus属动物是北美最丰富和分布最广的哺乳动物。 由于一系列特征，Peromyscus成为研究主要生物过程的首选模型，如物种形成，适应和应激反应，生理和进化背景下的行为适应，宿主-寄生虫相互作用，微生物组相关研究等。 PGSC通过培训Peromyscus相关研究的本科生和研究生促进生物研究和劳动力发展。 它还协助内部和外部研究人员进行研究项目，并提供动物处理和操纵方面的培训。PGSC还通过每年出版两次的通讯和维护一个网站来传播使用Peromyscus的研究人员感兴趣的信息，作为Peromyscus相关研究的焦点。PGSC维护和分发Peromyscus的远交种和几种行为和毛色突变体。此外，它还提供各种物种的生物样本，如新鲜、冷冻和保存的组织、DNA、粪便和血液样本，并应外部要求开展小规模研究项目，以满足外部调查人员的研究需要。鉴于科学界越来越关注科学结果的透明度和可重复性，PGSC的存在和正常运作保证了动物的质量、健康、遗传和生理状态得到验证，并保证了它们公正和不间断地提供给要求它们的研究者。这些活动对NSF支持的研究人员特别有价值，他们需要具有可靠遗传和生理状态的多样化动物。

An award is made to the University of South Carolina to support the Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center (PGSC). Animals of the genus Peromyscus are the most abundant and widely distributed North American mammals. Due to a series of characteristics, Peromyscus emerged as a model of choice for the study of major biological processes such as speciation, adaptation and stress response, behavior adaptation in the context of physiology and evolution, host-parasite interactions, microbiome-associated studies and others. The PGSC facilitates biological research and workforce development through training of undergraduate and graduate students in Peromyscus-related research. It also assists internal and external investigators in their research projects and provides training in animal handling and manipulation. The PGSC also operates as a focal point for Peromyscus-associated research through its Newsletter that is published twice a year and the maintenance of a website that disseminates information that is of interest to investigators using Peromyscus.The PGSC maintains and distributes outbred stocks of Peromyscus and several behavioral and coat-color mutants. In addition, it provides biological samples of various species, such as fresh, frozen and preserved tissues, DNA, fecal and blood samples and in response to external requests performs small-scale research projects to facilitate external investigators research needs. In view of the increasing concerns of the scientific community for transparency and reproducibility of the scientific results, the existence and regular operation of the PGSC warrants the availability of animals of verified quality, health, genetic and physiological status and of their unbiased and uninterrupted supply to investigators requesting them. These activities are of particular value to NSF supported investigators who require diversified animals of reliable genetic and physiological state.