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Adam W. Ferguson

Field Museum of Natural HistoryORCID 0000-0002-6931-6420Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Ecology· 3 Genomics· 1

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Organism:mouse· 3 Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 2 Organism:rat· 2 Organism:zebrafish· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:ecology & biodiversity· 1

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Maya M. JumaniD· 3 shared Molly M. McDonoughiD· 3 shared Daniel J. BeckeriD· 2 shared Alexander J. Richardson· 1 shared Aren M. Gunderson· 1 shared Ariel Caudle· 1 shared Audrey M. MathenyiD· 1 shared Barbara A. HaniD· 1 shared

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2023-2026 · peak 2/yr

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Maya M. JumanORCID

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4 papers

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EcologybioRxivPreprintMar 25, 2026

Historic and contemporary museum specimens implicate Northern Red-backed Vole (Clethrionomys rutilus) as borealpox host as early as 1990s

Maya M. Juman, Jeffrey B. Doty, Clint N. Morgan…·Link E. Olson

The study identifies Northern Red-backed Voles as potential BRPV hosts using museum specimens and field samples, showing BRPV presence since at least 1998.

DOI 10.64898/2026.03.22.713527

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EcologybioRxivPreprintNov 28, 2025

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…·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.

DOI 10.1101/2025.11.28.691153

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EcologybioRxivPreprintSep 11, 2025

Museum collections and machine learning guide discovery of novel coronaviruses and paramyxoviruses

Maya M. Juman, Molly M. McDonough, Adam W. Ferguson…·Daniel J. Becker

The paper uses machine learning to screen museum tissues for novel coronaviruses and paramyxoviruses, recovering sequences from archived samples and identifying new host species.

1 citation

machine learning (classical)host-pathogen & immune response

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GenomicsEmerging infectious diseasesPeer-reviewedJul 13, 2023

Prospecting for zoonotic pathogens using targeted DNA enrichment

Egie Elisha Enabulele, Winka Le Clecʼh, E. Roberts…·Roy N. Platt

The paper develops a targeted DNA enrichment method using RNA probes to identify zoonotic pathogens in museum-archived tissues, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting bacterial species.

5 citations

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