Biodiversity databases as underutilized resources for pathogen discovery: a quantitative synthesis of bat and rodent tissue collections in natural history museums
Colleen Elizabeth Cronin, Maya M. Juman, Alexander J. Richardson, Christopher A. Whittier, Daniel J. Becker, Adam W. Ferguson
This paper assesses how biodiversity databases can be used for pathogen discovery by analyzing tissue samples from bats and rodents in natural history museums.
bioRxiv · Nov 28, 2025 · PreprintEcology