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    Parasites lost: using natural history collections to track disease change across deep time

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    Authors
    Harmon, A
    Littlewood, DTJ
    Wood, CL
    Issue date
    2019-03-04
    Submitted date
    2019-07-10
    Subject Terms
    Disease ecology
    Ancient DNA sequencing
    Imaging technology
    Historical disease data
    Natural resources management
    
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    Abstract
    Recent decades have brought countless outbreaks of infectious disease among wildlife. These events appear to be increasing in frequency and magnitude, but to objectively evaluate whether ecosystems are experiencing rising rates of disease, scientists require historical data on disease abundance. Specimens held in natural history collections represent a chronological archive of life on Earth and may, in many cases, be the only available source of data on historical disease patterns. It is possible to extract information on past disease rates by studying trace fossils (indirect fossilized evidence of an organism's presence or activity, including coprolites or feces), sequencing ancient DNA of parasites, and examining sediment samples, mummified remains, study skins (preserved animal skins prepared by taxidermy for research purposes), liquid‐preserved hosts, and hosts preserved in amber. Such use of natural history collections could expand scientific understanding of parasite responses to environmental change across deep time (that is, over the past several centuries), facilitating the development of baselines for managing contemporary wildlife disease.
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    Harmon, A., D. T. J. Littlewood, et al. (2019). "Parasites lost: using natural history collections to track disease change across deep time." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17(3): 157-166.
    Publisher
    Ecological Society of America
    Journal
    FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10141/622544
    DOI
    10.1002/fee.2017
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    Journal Article
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    © The Ecological Society of America. The Author may post the work in a publicly accessible form on his/her personal or home institution's webpages. Full text available 10.1002/fee.2017. The attached file is the published pdf.
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    1540-9295
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    1540-9309
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1002/fee.2017
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