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

DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02698-20

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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.

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Cody W. Thompson^a,^b,
Kendra L. Phelps^c,
Marc W. Allard^d,
Joseph A. Cook^e,
Jonathan L. Dunnum^e,
Adam W. Ferguson^f,
Magnus Gelang^g,^h,
Faisal Ali Anwarali Khanⁱ,
Deborah L. Paul^j,^k,
DeeAnn M. Reeder^l,
Nancy B. Simmons^m,
Maarten P. M. Vanhoveⁿ,
Paul W. Webala^o,
Marcelo Weksler^p,
C. William Kilpatrick^q

^aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
^bMuseum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
^cEcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA
^dCenter of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U. S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA
^eMuseum of Southwestern Biology, Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
^fGantz Family Collections Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA
^gGothenburg Natural History Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
^hGothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
ⁱFaculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia
^jFlorida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
^kSpecies File Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
^lBucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
^mDepartment of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA
ⁿHasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Diepenbeek, Belgium
^oDepartment of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya
^pDepartamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
^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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biorepositories

extended specimen

holistic specimen

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