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Protist Collections: Essential for Future Research
Claudia M d'Avila-Levy1, Vyacheslav Yurchenko2, Jan Votýpka3
1Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Protozoa Collection, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 21040 360 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Trends in Parasitology
|September 11, 2016
Abstract:
The vouchered deposit of protist type specimens in institution-maintained collections is a prerequisite for species description, and greatly enhances the chances of sample availability and preservation for future generations. However, specimens are currently most often deposited in personal collections maintained by the individual effort of researchers. We discuss the disadvantages of such a scenario and propose a change to this arrangement.