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 …

Digital extended specimens: Enabling an extensible network of biodiversity data records as integrated digital objects on the internet

AR Hardisty, ER Ellwood, G Nelson, B Zimkus… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The early twenty-first century has witnessed massive expansions in availability and
accessibility of digital data in virtually all domains of the biodiversity sciences. Led by an …

Specimen collection is essential for modern science

MW Nachman, EJ Beckman, RCK Bowie, C Cicero… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Natural history museums are vital repositories of specimens, samples and data that inform
about the natural world; this Formal Comment revisits a Perspective that advocated for the …

Strengthening global health security by improving disease surveillance in remote rural areas of low-income and middle-income countries

KEL Worsley-Tonks, JB Bender, SL Deem… - The Lancet Global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to strengthen national surveillance
systems to protect a globally connected world. In low-income and middle-income countries …

Food security and emerging infectious disease: risk assessment and risk management

V Trivellone, EP Hoberg… - Royal Society open …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change, emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and food security create a dangerous
nexus. Habitat interfaces, assumed to be efficient buffers, are being disrupted by human …

Trends in bacterial pathogens of bats: global distribution and knowledge gaps

T Szentivanyi, C McKee, G Jones… - Transboundary and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bats have received considerable recent attention for infectious disease research because of
their potential to host and transmit viruses, including Ebola, Hendra, Nipah, and multiple …

Ecological super‐spreaders drive host–range oscillations: Omicron and risk space for emerging infectious disease

WA Boeger, DR Brooks, V Trivellone… - Transboundary and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The unusual genetic diversity of the Omicron strain has led to speculation about its origin.
The mathematical modelling platform developed for the Stockholm Paradigm (SP) indicates …

Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health

KM Rayfield, AM Mychajliw… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The accelerating pace of emerging zoonotic diseases in the twenty-first century has
motivated cross-disciplinary collaboration on One Health approaches, combining …

[HTML][HTML]  Reconnecting research and natural history museums in Italy and the need of a national collection biorepository

F Andreone, F Boero, MA Bologna, GM Carpaneto… - ZooKeys, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract In Italy, differently from other countries, a national museum of natural history is not
present. This absence is due, among other reasons, to its historical political fragmentation …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity data supports research on human infectious diseases: global trends, challenges, and opportunities

F Astorga, Q Groom, PHF Shimabukuro, S Manguin… - One Health, 2023 - Elsevier
The unprecedented generation of large volumes of biodiversity data is consistently
contributing to a wide range of disciplines, including disease ecology. Emerging infectious …