The U.S. Culture Collection Network Lays the Foundation for Progress in Preservation of Valuable Microbial Resources

Kevin McCluskey¹, Anne Alvarez¹, Rick Bennett¹+37

• ¹First and twenty-seventh authors: Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan; second author: Department of Plant & Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii, Manoa; third author: Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Kentucky, Lexington; fourth author: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK; fifth author: Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis; sixth author: Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville; seventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth authors: Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Penn State University, University Park; eighth author: World Phytophthora Resource, University of California, Riverside; ninth author: Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Research and Education Center, Lexington, KY; tenth author: Office of Science Programs, Ecological Society of America, Washington, DC; eleventh, twelfth, and fortieth authors: Duke Lemur Center, Duke University, Durham, NC; thirteenth author: Eversole Associates, 5207 Wyoming Road, Bethesda, MD; sixteenth author: USDA, U.S. Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI; seventeenth author: USDA, National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, Ft. Collins, CO; eighteenth author: International Biological and Chemical Threat Reduction, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM; nineteenth author: Montgomery Botanical Center, Coral Gables, FL; twentieth author: Larry F. Grand Mycological Herbarium, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; twenty-first and thirty-third authors: USDA-ARS Collection of Entomopathogenic Fungal Cultures, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health, Ithaca, NY; twenty-second author: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Ft. Collins, CO; twenty-third author: CABI, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, UK; twenty-fourth author: Bionomics Inter