Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

Museomics, a term coined by Drs. Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller in∼ 2009, refers to
“the large-scale analysis of the DNA content of museum collections”(http://mammoth. psu …

Field biology is an area of research that involves working directly with living organisms in
situ through a practice known as “fieldwork.” Conducting fieldwork often requires complex …

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 …

Digital accessible biodiversity knowledge has the potential to greatly advance botanical
research and guide conservation efforts. Evaluating its shortfalls is key to understanding its …

Biological collections are a critical part of the nation's science and innovation infrastructure
and a fundamental resource for understanding the natural world. Biological collections …

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 …

The technological ability to characterize genetic variation at a genome‐wide scale provides
an unprecedented opportunity to study the genetic underpinnings and evolutionary …

Describing a substantial proportion of the world's species could be made much easier by the
3D digitization of collections, which would facilitate the dissemination of taxonomic …

Amid global challenges like climate change, extinctions, and disease epidemics, science
and society require nuanced, international solutions that are grounded in robust …