Historical DNA (hDNA), obtained from museum and herbarium specimens, has yielded
spectacular new insights into the history of organisms. This includes documenting historical …

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 …

In less than 25 y, the field of animal genome science has transformed from a discipline
seeking its first glimpses into genome sequences across the Tree of Life to a global …

Back and forth transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) between humans and animals will establish wild reservoirs of virus that endanger long …

Emerging diseases caused by coronaviruses of likely bat origin (eg, SARS, MERS, SADS,
COVID-19) have disrupted global health and economies for two decades. Evidence …

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 emergence of SARS-CoV-2 highlights a need for evidence-based strategies to monitor
bat viruses. We performed a systematic review of coronavirus sampling (testing for RNA …

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 …

A voucher is a permanently preserved specimen that is maintained in an accessible
collection. In genomics, vouchers serve as the physical evidence for the taxonomic …

Many disease ecologists and conservation biologists believe that the world is wormier than it
used to be—that is, that parasites are increasing in abundance through time. This argument …