Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness

作者：Deborah Paul, Cody W. Thompson, Lizette Arroyo, Germán Botto, Iván Castro-Arellano, Jocelyn P. Colella, Joseph A. Cook, Michael V. Cove, Jacqueline Dearborn, Noé U. de la Sancha, Katrina M Derieg, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Adam W. Ferguson, K.M. Fitzgerald, Courtney Foat, Lexi E. Frank, Kurt E. Galbreath, D. Gonzalez, Rebecca K. Hawkins, Teofilo Herrera, Alexander Hey, Andrew G. Hope, Angela D. Hornsby, Daniel Ibañez, Oliver Keller, Dianna Krejsa, K. J. Mahoney, Jason L. Malaney, Molly M. McDonough, Thomas C. McElrath, Verity L. Mathis, Teresa Mayfield-Meyer, Ilana A. Mosley, Nicté Ordóñez‐Garza, Kendra L. Phelps, Roy N. Platt, Josh Pletcher, Hilary H Rinsland, Charles E. Rupprecht, Kelly A. Speer, Laura Steger, Nathan S. Upham, Richard White, Ben J. Wiens, Litsa Wooten, Pamela S. Soltis · 发表于：BioScience · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1093/biosci/biaf035 · 被引用次数：7 · 研究领域：Species Distribution and Climate Change、Zoonotic diseases and public health、Animal and Plant Science Education

Five years after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we have the opportunity to gather lessons learned about needed infrastructure for predicting, understanding, and mitigating future zoonotic disease outbreaks. The world's natural history museums hold some 3 billion specimens that document life on Earth (Wheeler et al. 2012), each of which represents organismal diversity at a specific location and time and may carry a record of that organism's interactions with other species, from mutualists to pathogens, and its environment. In the context of disease biology, these specimens are an underused resource for understanding the geographic distributions of pathogens and their hosts, the origins and spread of disease, and the ecological conditions leading to spillover (e.g., Cook et al. 2020, Soltis et al. 2020, Colella et al. 2021, Thompson et al. 2021, Weems et al. 2021, Mabry et al. 2023). Moreover, the impacts of land-use alterations on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases through complex relationships involving host stress and immunity, pathogen dynamics, and microbiome shifts (Botto Nuñez et al. 2019, Weems et al. 2021) and through increased exploitation and trade of wildlife can be tracked and interpreted using collections. We emphasize in the present article the potential role that collections could play if integrated into the One Health ecosystem of resources (see box 1). We focus in the present article on zoonotic diseases and relevant zoological col...