Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Integr Comp Biol. 2011 Aug;51(2):215-23. doi: 10.1093/icb/icr047. Epub 2011 Jun 22.
The Feeding Experiments End-user Database (FEED) is a research tool developed by the Mammalian Feeding Working Group at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center that permits synthetic, evolutionary analyses of the physiology of mammalian feeding. The tasks of the Working Group are to compile physiologic data sets into a uniform digital format stored at a central source, develop a standardized terminology for describing and organizing the data, and carry out a set of novel analyses using FEED. FEED contains raw physiologic data linked to extensive metadata. It serves as an archive for a large number of existing data sets and a repository for future data sets. The metadata are stored as text and images that describe experimental protocols, research subjects, and anatomical information. The metadata incorporate controlled vocabularies to allow consistent use of the terms used to describe and organize the physiologic data. The planned analyses address long-standing questions concerning the phylogenetic distribution of phenotypes involving muscle anatomy and feeding physiology among mammals, the presence and nature of motor pattern conservation in the mammalian feeding muscles, and the extent to which suckling constrains the evolution of feeding behavior in adult mammals. We expect FEED to be a growing digital archive that will facilitate new research into understanding the evolution of feeding anatomy.
饲养实验终端用户数据库（FEED）是由国家进化综合中心哺乳动物饲养工作组开发的一个研究工具，它允许对哺乳动物饲养的生理学进行综合的、进化的分析。该工作组的任务是将生理数据集编译成一个存储在中央源中的统一数字格式，开发描述和组织数据的标准化术语，并使用 FEED 进行一系列新的分析。FEED 包含与大量元数据相关联的原始生理数据。它是大量现有数据集的档案，也是未来数据集的存储库。元数据存储为描述实验方案、研究对象和解剖信息的文本和图像。元数据采用受控词汇表，以允许使用描述和组织生理数据的术语保持一致。计划的分析涉及到一些长期存在的问题，包括涉及哺乳动物肌肉解剖和进食生理学的表型在系统发育上的分布、哺乳动物进食肌肉中运动模式的保守性的存在和性质，以及哺乳对成年哺乳动物进食行为进化的限制程度。我们预计 FEED 将成为一个不断增长的数字档案，将有助于对理解进食解剖的进化进行新的研究。
