Museum genomics

DC Card, B Shapiro, G Giribet, C Moritz… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

Museum specimens of terrestrial vertebrates are sensitive indicators of environmental change in the Anthropocene

CJ Schmitt, JA Cook, KR Zamudio… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Natural history museums and the specimen collections they curate are vital scientific
infrastructure, a fact as true today as it was when biologists began collecting and preserving …

A global parasite conservation plan

CJ Carlson, S Hopkins, KC Bell, J Doña… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Found throughout the tree of life and in every ecosystem, parasites are some of the most
diverse, ecologically important animals on Earth—but in almost all cases, the least protected …

Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate

CJ Carlson, KR Burgio, ER Dougherty, AJ Phillips… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Climate change is a well-documented driver of both wildlife extinction and disease
emergence, but the negative impacts of climate change on parasite diversity are …

What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?

CJ Carlson, TA Dallas… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How many parasites are there on Earth? Here, we use helminth parasites to highlight how
little is known about parasite diversity, and how insufficient our current approach will be to …

Leveraging natural history biorepositories as a global, decentralized, pathogen surveillance network

JP Colella, J Bates, SF Burneo, MA Camacho… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic reveals a
major gap in global biosecurity infrastructure: a lack of publicly available biological samples …

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

FT Bakker, A Antonelli, JA Clarke, JA Cook… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational
innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich …

Building natural history collections for the twenty-first century and beyond

SE Miller, LN Barrow, SM Ehlman, JA Goodheart… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Natural history collections (NHCs) are important resources for a diverse array of scientific
fields. Recent digitization initiatives have broadened the user base of NHCs, and new …

Integrating biodiversity infrastructure into pathogen discovery and mitigation of emerging infectious diseases

JA Cook, S Arai, B Armién, J Bates, CAC Bonilla… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
JOSEPH A. COOK, SATORU ARAI, BLAS ARMIÉN, JOHN BATES, CARLOS A. CARRION
BONILLA, MARIA BEATRIZ DE SOUZA CORTEZ, JONATHAN L. DUNNUM, ADAM W …

Building an integrated infrastructure for exploring biodiversity: field collections and archives of mammals and parasites

KE Galbreath, EP Hoberg, JA Cook… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Museum specimens play an increasingly important role in predicting the outcomes and
revealing the consequences of anthropogenically driven disruption of the biosphere. As …