d'Avila-Levy Claudia M, Yurchenko Vyacheslav, Votýpka Jan, Grellier Philippe
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Protozoa Collection, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 21040 360 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Life Science Research Centre and Institute of Environmental Technologies, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, 710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic; Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 370 05 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic.
Trends Parasitol. 2016 Nov;32(11):840-842. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.08.001. Epub 2016 Sep 6.
The vouchered deposit of protist type specimens in institution-maintained collections is a prerequisite for species description, and greatly enhances the chances of sample availability and preservation for future generations. However, specimens are currently most often deposited in personal collections maintained by the individual effort of researchers. We discuss the disadvantages of such a scenario and propose a change to this arrangement.
