Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

Biodiversity biobanks or ex situ biodiversity biorepositories tend to receive less attention
compared with their biomedical counterparts. In this review, we highlight the necessity for …

The term “marine biodiscovery” has been recently been adopted to describe the area of
marine natural products dedicated to the search of new drugs. Several maritime countries …

The current environmental changes stressing the Earth's biological systems urgently require
study from an integrated perspective to reveal unexpected, cross-scale interactions …

To better tackle diseases and sustain healthy ecosystems, One Health programs must
efficiently bridge health in humans, domestic/livestock species, wild animals and plants …

Continuous phenotypic variation reflecting geographical clines can be difficult to distinguish
from subspecific discontinuities when specimens are few and heterogeneously distributed …

Scientific collections constitute a valuable source for contributions to scientific research and
the training of human resources in systematics, but also other areas of biological knowledge …

The hunt for the immediate non-human host of SARS-CoV-2 has centered on bats of the
genus Rhinolophus. We explored the phylogenetic predictions of two models of viral …

Abstract We documented a Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) with a bill deformity
consistent with Avian Keratin Disorder (AKD) from West Texas. However, bill deformities …

We provide a brief introduction on the importance and use of scientific collections and a
general overview of the articles that are part of the special issue of the Brazilian Journal of …