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Biodiversity databases as underutilized resources for pathogen discovery: a quantitative synthesis of bat and rodent tissue collections in natural history museums

2025-12-01

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Zoonotic spillovers are becoming increasingly frequent, and the devastating effects of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic demonstrate our continued inability to combat their consequences effectively. Natural history museums can enhance the study of zoonoses by serving as valuable resources for understanding the ecology and evolutionary history of pathogens and their wildlife hosts. Despite the growing interest in the role mu...

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Literature Corpus work: 22b694d2-1c44-574d-9b17-23b8f59639ba
DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.28.691153

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