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Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies

Cody W. Thompson, Kendra L. Phelps, Marc W. Allard, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Adam W. Ferguson, Magnus Gelang, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Deborah L. Paul, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Nancy B. Simmons, Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Paul W. Webala, Marcelo Weksler, C. William Kilpatrick
Vinayaka R. Prasad, Editor
Cody W. Thompson
aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
bMuseum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Kendra L. Phelps
cEcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA
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Marc W. Allard
dCenter of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U. S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA
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Joseph A. Cook
eMuseum of Southwestern Biology, Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Jonathan L. Dunnum
eMuseum of Southwestern Biology, Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Adam W. Ferguson
fGantz Family Collections Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Magnus Gelang
gGothenburg Natural History Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
hGothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan
iFaculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Deborah L. Paul
jFlorida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
kSpecies File Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
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DeeAnn M. Reeder
lBucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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Nancy B. Simmons
mDepartment of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA
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Maarten P. M. Vanhove
nHasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Paul W. Webala
oDepartment of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya
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Marcelo Weksler
pDepartamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02698-20
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02698-20
PubMed 
33436435

Published By 
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History 
  • Published online January 12, 2021.

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Copyright © 2021 Thompson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Editors and / or Reviewers 
  • Vinayaka R. Prasad, Editor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Author Information

  1. Cody W. Thompsona,b,
  2. Kendra L. Phelpsc,
  3. Marc W. Allardd,
  4. Joseph A. Cooke,
  5. Jonathan L. Dunnume,
  6. Adam W. Fergusonf,
  7. Magnus Gelangg,h,
  8. Faisal Ali Anwarali Khani,
  9. Deborah L. Paulj,k,
  10. DeeAnn M. Reederl,
  11. Nancy B. Simmonsm,
  12. Maarten P. M. Vanhoven,
  13. Paul W. Webalao,
  14. Marcelo Wekslerp,
  15. C. William Kilpatrickq
  1. aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  2. bMuseum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  3. cEcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA
  4. dCenter of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U. S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA
  5. eMuseum of Southwestern Biology, Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
  6. fGantz Family Collections Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  7. gGothenburg Natural History Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
  8. hGothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
  9. iFaculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia
  10. jFlorida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
  11. kSpecies File Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
  12. lBucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
  13. mDepartment of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA
  14. nHasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Diepenbeek, Belgium
  15. oDepartment of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya
  16. pDepartamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  17. qUniversity of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
  • Address correspondence to Cody W. Thompson, cwthomp{at}umich.edu, or Kendra L. Phelps, phelps{at}ecohealthalliance.org.
  • Cody W. Thompson and Kendra L. Phelps contributed equally as first authors. First author order was determined based on best out of three rounds of “rock-paper-scissors.”

  • Citation Thompson CW, Phelps KL, Allard MW, Cook JA, Dunnum JL, Ferguson AW, Gelang M, Khan FAA, Paul DL, Reeder DM, Simmons NB, Vanhove MPM, Webala PW, Weksler M, Kilpatrick CW. 2021. Preserve a voucher specimen! The critical need for integrating natural history collections in infectious disease studies. mBio 12:e02698-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02698-20.

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Cody W. Thompson, Kendra L. Phelps, Marc W. Allard, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Adam W. Ferguson, Magnus Gelang, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Deborah L. Paul, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Nancy B. Simmons, Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Paul W. Webala, Marcelo Weksler, C. William Kilpatrick
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Cody W. Thompson, Kendra L. Phelps, Marc W. Allard, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Adam W. Ferguson, Magnus Gelang, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Deborah L. Paul, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Nancy B. Simmons, Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Paul W. Webala, Marcelo Weksler, C. William Kilpatrick
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    • ABSTRACT
    • INTRODUCTION
    • IMPORTANCE OF VOUCHERING IN HOST-PATHOGEN STUDIES
    • INSIGHTS INTO CURRENT VOUCHERING PRACTICES IN HOST-PATHOGEN RESEARCH
    • ROLE OF NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS IN HOST-PATHOGEN RESEARCH
    • BEST PRACTICES FOR INTEGRATING NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS IN HOST-PATHOGEN STUDIES
    • CONCLUSIONS
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holistic specimen
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