Natural history collections in the science of the 21st century : a sustainable resource for open science / / coordinated by Roseli Pellens

• Autore: Pellens Roseli
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 pages)
• Disciplina: 508.0753
• Soggetto topico: Natural history
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Natural History Collections: An Essential Resource for Science in the 21st Century -- 1.1. Collections in early 21st century science -- 1.2. New explorations because of the magnitude and diversity of the collections' data -- 1.3. Research using and driving the constitution of natural history collections -- 1.3.1. Being able to return to the object: one of the major contributions of natural history collections -- 1.3.2. Collections at the heart of highly innovative research thanks to new technologies -- 1.3.3. A resource for global change research -- 1.3.4. Designing the science of the future based on collections -- 1.4. References -- 2. Natural History Collections: An Ancient Concept in a Present and Future Perspective -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. A tribute to curiosity and coupling with classifications -- 2.3. The structuring of our thoughts and actions by an ancient concept -- 2.4. Collections: more than species catalogues -- 2.5. Big Data collections in space and time -- 2.6. What future is there for the use of collections? -- 2.7. Conclusion -- 2.8. References -- 3. Louis XIV's Blue Gems: Exceptional Rediscoveries at the French National Museum of Natural History -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. A scientific investigation of color -- 3.3. The digital decoding of the creative genius of the royal gem cutter -- 3.4. Epilogue: toward a renaissance... -- 3.5. References -- 4. Rediscovering Human Mummies: Unpublished data on the Chachapoya Mummy Exhibited at the Musée de l'Homme -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.1.1. The Muséum's collection of human mummies -- 4.1.2. Origin, discovery, donation and exhibition: a brief history of the mummy -- 4.2. Materials and methods. ; 4.2.1. The MNHN-HA-30187 mummy: position of the body, measurements and external appearance -- 4.2.2. Medical imaging protocol and technique -- 4.2.3. Protocol for experimental reproduction of trepanation -- 4.3. Results -- 4.3.1. Basic biological identity -- 4.3.2. Osteo-dental status -- 4.3.3. Internal organs -- 4.3.4. Archeoentomology -- 4.3.5. Cranial trepanation: location, size and mode of operation -- 4.4. Discussion -- 4.4.1. Identity of the deceased and health status -- 4.4.2. Treatment of the corpse and embalming -- 4.4.3. Chronology of mortuary gestures -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 4.6. References -- 5 Reconstructing the History of Human Populations: A Challenge for Biological Anthropology -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.1.1. How human remains have also become scientific objects -- 5.1.2. The MNHN biological anthropology collection -- 5.1.3. Cranial morphology as an indication of biocultural processes -- 5.2. Cranial morphology and settlement history -- 5.2.1. A new look at the diversity of Native Americans -- 5.3. Cranial morphology and adaptation to the environment -- 5.3.1. Cranial diversity beyond randomness -- 5.4. The importance of cranial collection for the advancement of research in biological anthropology -- 5.5. References -- 6. The Discovery of New Metal-Hyperaccumulating Plant Species in Herbaria -- 6.1. Metal-hyperaccumulating plants -- 6.2. The screening of herbarium collections: from atomic absorption to X-ray fluorescence -- 6.3. The discovery of new metal-hyperaccumulating plants at the MNHN herbarium -- 6.3.1. The interest of the MNHN herbarium for the research of metal-hyperaccumulating plants -- 6.3.2. From the herbarium to the field: new nickel hyperaccumulators in the genus Orthion -- 6.3.3. Rinorea multivenosa, the first zinc hyperaccumulating species discovered in the Amazon basin. ; 6.3.4. A large number of manganese hyperaccumulating species to be discovered -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 6.5. Acknowledgments -- 6.6. References -- 7. Fossil Crustaceans in the Light of New Technologies -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Fossil crustaceans -- 7.3. The radiation of fossil crustaceans -- 7.3.1. Revealing characters with UV light (yellow fluorescence) -- 7.3.2. Revealing characters with green light (green-orange fluorescence) -- 7.3.3. X-ray radiography -- 7.4. Exceptional preservation of fossil crustaceans -- 7.5. Ostracods and paleogeography at the end of the Paleozoic -- 7.6. References -- 8. The "Cyanobacteria and Microalgae" Collection in the Time of "-omics" -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. A living collection supported by research -- 8.3. New uses of the collection in basic research -- 8.3.1. Polyphasic identification and taxonomy of cyanobacteria and microalgae -- 8.3.2. Contribution to the evolutionary sciences -- 8.3.3. Contribution to the study of interactions between organisms -- 8.4. Enhancing the value of biological resources through the search for innovative bioactive molecules -- 8.5. Expertise in environmental diagnosis -- 8.6. The living collection of cyanobacteria and microalgae of today and tomorrow -- 8.7. References -- 9. The Collection of Cryopreserved Cells and Tissues of Vertebrates: Methods and Application -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. History of the collection -- 9.3. Can all living beings be cryopreserved? -- 9.3.1. Collection, culture and freezing -- 9.4. Current applications -- 9.5. Current composition of the bank -- 9.6. Perspectives -- 9.7. References -- 10. Herbaria, the Last Resort for Extinct Plant Species -- 10.1. Context and objectives -- 10.2. Proposed approach and protocol -- 10.3. First results -- 10.3.1. Selection of target species and identification of affine species. ; 10.3.2. Assessment of the viability of available seeds -- 10.3.3. Cultivation experiments on affine species of the target species -- 10.4. Discussion and conclusion -- 10.5. Acknowledgments -- 10.6. References -- 11. Ocean Cores, Climate Archives -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. The MNHN's oceanic collection -- 11.3. Development of core drilling techniques -- 11.4. Ocean cores: archives of past climate variability -- 11.5. Climate proxies -- 11.5.1. Temperature proxies -- 11.5.2. Proxies of salinity -- 11.5.3. Paleo-pH proxies and carbonate ion concentration -- 11.6. Analytical techniques -- 11.7. Conclusion -- 11.8. References -- 12. Clarifying the Radiocarbon Calibration Curve for Ancient Egypt: The Wager of Herbaria -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Carbon-14 (¹⁴C) dating and Egyptian chronology -- 12.2.1. The challenge of calibration -- 12.2.2. Chronology of ancient Egypt: contribution of ¹⁴C and historic debates -- 12.3. Specificities of the Egyptian landscape and the objective of the project -- 12.4. The flora of Egypt in the MNHN Herbarium -- 12.5. Analytical and statistical challenges -- 12.5.1. Selection of herbarium specimens -- 12.5.2. Preliminary results of ¹⁴C dating -- 12.6. Conclusion -- 12.7. References -- 13. Herbaria, a Window into the Evolutionary History of Crop Pathogens -- 13.1. Epidemics, emergences and re-emergences -- 13.2. Development of agriculture, domestication of cultivated plants and their diseases -- 13.3. Molecular biology and genomics as a tool for studying phytopathogenic micro-organisms -- 13.4. Contributions of the herbarium samples -- 13.4.1. Direct evidence -- 13.4.2. Molecular analyses -- 13.5. How to explore a herbarium -- 13.6. Characteristics of old nucleic acids and their treatment -- 13.6.1. The particular case of viral nucleic acids -- 13.7. Xanthomonas citri pv. citri and its emergence in the Indian Ocean. ; 13.8. Emergence and evolutionary history of plant pathogenic viruses: the geminivirus model -- 13.8.1. Case of a species complex responsible for an emerging disease -- 13.8.2. Case of a cryptic geminivirus -- 13.9. Discussion -- 13.10. Acknowledgments and funding -- 13.11. References -- 14. The Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet: Prediction of the Risk of Invasion and the Study of its Color Variations -- 14.1. Introduction -- 14.2. Vespa velutina: some elements of taxonomy and biology -- 14.2.1. A species: 13 colored forms -- 14.2.2. One nest per year -- 14.2.3. Insectivore, but not exclusively -- 14.3. Sampling of specimens -- 14.4. The origin of invasive lineages of V. velutina in France and Korea -- 14.4.1. The history of the invasion explained by genetics -- 14.4.2. A single queen at the origin of the invasive lineage in France -- 14.5. Expansion risks in Europe and worldwide -- 14.5.1. Data and methods for inferring range and predicting invasion risk -- 14.5.2. Strong expansion in Europe and the Northern Hemisphere -- 14.6. Origin of color and shape variations -- 14.6.1. The importance of collection specimens -- 14.6.2. Discordance between genetic lineages and colored forms -- 14.7. Conclusion -- 14.8. References -- 15. Exploring Temporal Changes in the Composition of Macroalgal Communities by Using Collections -- 15.1. On the constitution of macroalgal collections -- 15.1.1. Large seaweeds -- 15.1.2. Algal herbaria -- 15.1.3. Data associated with the herbaria -- 15.1.4. Specimens and scientific evidence -- 15.1.5. The herbarium of the Dinard maritime laboratory -- 15.2. Exploring temporal changes in species distribution -- 15.2.1. Perspectives for exploring temporal changes in species distribution -- 15.3. Exploring temporal changes in community composition -- 15.3.1. Example of the study of the Dinard Herbarium. ; 15.3.2. Perspectives for exploring temporal changes in community composition.
• Titolo autorizzato: Natural History Collections in the Science of the 21st Century
• ISBN: 1-119-88222-2; 1-119-88223-0; 1-119-88221-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910555143103321
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