| Project/Area Number |
20H03333
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 45050:Physical anthropology-related
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
MacIntosh Andrew 京都大学, 野生動物研究センター, 准教授 (30623136)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
岡本 宗裕 京都大学, ヒト行動進化研究センター, 教授 (70177096)
和田 崇之 大阪公立大学, 大学院生活科学研究科, 教授 (70332450)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥7,540,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,740,000)
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| Keywords | primatology / parasitology / epidemiology / conservation / biodiversity / macroecology / wildlife / Primatology / Parasitology / Epidemiology / Conservation / Biodiversity / Conservatioon / Macroecology |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This is a collaborative project by behavioral ecologists, parasitologists and infectious disease epidemiologists, and conservation biologists. We aim to understand how human use of natural resources affects the relationship between wildlife and their parasites. The relationship between biodiversity and infectious disease risk is now highlighted by the global pandemic of COVID-19. Our work investigates primates and their parasites in Borneo, where rapid land conversion for oil palm has altered primate communities. How this affects risk of parasite emergence is a key question to now ask.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In FY2023 we collected >200 fecal samples from five primate species living in very different riverine ecosystems (Klias Peninsula, Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary) in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Samples were processed at the Insttute for Tropical Biodiversity and Conservation at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah, and exported to Japan for analysis. We secured further funding in FY2024 to analyze these samples in collaboration with researchers at Oita university, with whom we published a manuscript based on a metagenomic analysis of parasites in Asian primates. We also continued work on Yakushima, investigating parasites found in tanuki latrines. We are testing if the popularity of each latrine among tanuki increases parasite diversity and abundance, leading to higher risk of infection.
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| Research Progress Status |
令和5年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
令和5年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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