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Wood, C. L., Leslie, K. L., Claar, D., Mastick, N., Preisser, W., VANHOVE, Maarten, Welicky, R. |
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Cite this article: Wood CL, Leslie KL, Claar D, Mastick N, Preisser W, Vanhove MPM, Welicky R (2023). How to use natural history collections to resurrect information on historical parasite abundances. Journal of Helminthology 97, e6, 1-13. https://doi. Abstract Many of the most contentious questions that concern the ecology of helminths could be resolved with data on helminth abundance over the past few decades or centuries, but unfortunately these data are rare. A new sub-discipline-the historical ecology of parasitism-is resurrecting long-term data on the abundance of parasites, an advancement facilitated by the use of biological natural history collections. Because the world's museums hold billions of suitable specimens collected over more than a century, these potential parasitological data-sets are broad in scope and finely resolved in taxonomic, temporal and spatial dimensions. Here, we set out best practices for the extraction of parasitological information from natural history collections, including how to conceive of a project, how to select specimens, how to engage curators and receive permission for proposed projects, standard operating protocols for dissections and how to manage data. Our hope is that other helminthologists will use this paper as a reference to expand their own research programmes along the dimension of time. Acknowledgements. The ideas in this paper were developed over many years, initially inspired by conversations among CLW, Armand Kuris, Kevin Lafferty and Ryan Hechinger; and among MPMV, Tine Huyse, Antoine Pariselle and Jos Snoeks. Conversations with museum personnel allowed us to hone our protocol for parasite ecology work in natural history collections; we especially thank Katherine Maslenikov, Luke Tornabene, Dave Catania, Carole Baldwin, Emmanuel J. Vreven, Didier Van den Spiegel, Maarten Van Steenberge, Eva Decru and Miguël Parrent for their input. Finally, we thank the postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and undergraduates who have advanced our laboratory’s work on the historical ecology of parasitism, including April Bonifate, Zachary Child, Sarah Colosimo, Ellie Davis, Evan Fiorenza, Duncan Greeley, Ingrid Howard, Jonathan Huie, Elby Jones, Michiel W. P. Jorissen, Hiromi Katagiri, Aspen Katla, Nikol Kmentová, Jonathan Kwong, Julieta Martinelli, Abigail Moosmiller, Daphne Mueller, Justin Ng, Jessica Quinn, Angel Sar, Kara Skaw, Wouter Van Sever and Madison Weise. Financial support. This work was supported by a CAREER Award from the United States National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology (NSF Grant Number 2141898), a Research Grant from the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies, a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a University of Washington Innovation Award and two University of Washington Royalty Research Fund Awards. MPMV was mainly supported for collection-based parasite ecological work by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office BRAIN pioneer project BR/132/PI/TILAPIA, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) research grant 1513419N and the Special Research Fund of Hasselt University (BOF20TT06). |
