PEROBASE: A BIOLOGICAL DATABASE FOR PEROMYSCUS

本子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的众多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能已经从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是中心的，不一定是研究者的机构。Peromyscus遗传资源中心和计算机科学与工程系正在开发PeroBase，这是一个北美啮齿动物属Peromyscus的数据库（http://wotan.cse.sc.edu/perobase/）。该数据库是建立在库存中心人员的经验，提供动物和信息，以不同范围的研究人员研究Peromyscus的生物学。从19世纪开始，一直到现在（过去5年里超过1300篇），关于该分类群的出版物很容易就超过了1万篇。对过骨肌的兴趣跨越了包括系统学、遗传学、生殖学、行为学、进化和生理学在内的学科范围；此外，该物种有很大的潜力发展成为研究适应性和物种形成遗传学的主要模型。鉴于这些动物的重要性和对它们的持续兴趣，显然需要一个广泛的、易于获取的、相互关联的信息基础。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering are developing PeroBase, a database for the North American rodent genus Peromyscus (http://wotan.cse.sc.edu/perobase/). The database is founded on the experience of the Stock Center personnel in providing animals and information to the diverse range of researchers studying the biology of Peromyscus. Publications on the taxon easily number over 10,000, beginning with work in the 19th century and continuing into the present (over 1300 in the last 5 years). Interest in Peromyscus spans the range of disciplines including systematics, genetics, reproduction, behavior, evolution, and physiology; additionally, the species has much potential for developing into a major model for studying the genetics of adaptability and speciation. There exists a clear need for an extensive, readily accessible, interconnected information base for Peromyscus in view of the importance of these animals and the continuing interest in them.