Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2514 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144402)
Principal Investigator: Wikberg, Eva
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 27,001
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 2/1/23 - 1/31/25
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: ARTS
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Colfa Anthropology
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Early Life Adversity, the Gut Microbiome, and Development in Colobus vellerosus
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Science Foundation - NSF
CFDA Link: NSF
47.075
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1; This research project will examine potential relationships between infanticide risk as a source of early life adversity, gut microbiome composition, and the development of coat color using 15 years of data from Colobus vellerosus at Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana. The goals of this project are to investigate: 1) whether infanticide risk predicts gut microbiome composition (69 infants); 2) whether infanticide risk experienced as an infant predicts the gut microbiome at later life history stages (71 juveniles, sub-adults, and adults); and 3) the association between gut microbiome composition and the speed of transition from natal to adult coat color (i.e., a physical marker of development in colobines that reduces infanticide risk), even when taking infanticide risk into account (57 infants). This project involves the full participation of women at a public, Hispanic-serving institution (UTSA) in scientific research that increases their skills in laboratory assays, bioinformatics, and data analysis. The findings will be presented at academic conferences and in peer-reviewed academic journals. The research site contains one of the last large populations of Colobus vellerosus, a critically endangered species, and we will apply our findings to support the management plan for this population, in partnership with the Boabeng-Fiema management committee.
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