Modernization of the Bohart Museum Mosquito Collections

博哈特博物馆蚊子收藏的现代化

• 批准号: 0346603
• 负责人: Lynn Kimsey
• 金额: $ 36.65万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0346603&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Modernization; Bohart; Museum; Mosquito; Collections

Abstract: Modernization of the Bohart Museum Mosquito Collection, #0346603A grant has been awarded to the University of California at Davis under the direction of Dr. L. Kimsey to modernize the mosquito collections at the Bohart Museum of Entomology (BME). Between 2001 and 2002, four collections of mosquitoes totaling nearly 175,000 specimens were donated to the BME. These donations have increased the total number of mosquitoes at the BME by 150%, adding 377 new species to the previous holdings of 384 species. There are numerous undescribed species in the donated material. Each of the donated collections includes pinned adults, microscope slide-mounted larvae and pupae, and alcohol-preserved larvae and pupae. With this grant, the staff of the BME will bring the specimens of the donated collections up to acceptable curatorial standards, and intercalate them with the existing BME collection into one integrated whole.There are many curatorial issues with the donated collections that the staff of the BME will address. First, many of the specimens are labeled only with code numbers that refer to records and field books that accompany the collections. These specimens will be properly labeled and entered into the museum collection database. Second, some pinned specimens are mounted using corrosive cork blocks, and will be remounted using proper pinning media. Finally, all alcohol-preserved specimens are in glass vials with decaying rubber or neoprene stoppers, and will be transferred to more appropriate alcohol vials. In addition, through the process of curation of these collections, the BME staff will train undergraduate and graduate students as specialists in mosquito taxonomy and systematics. At the end of their training these students will be fully qualified for employment by mosquito abatement districts or vector control agencies.Mosquitoes are the most common vectors of pathogens worldwide. By improving the collection at the BME, it will be the only one of its size that is housed at a university, and because of this it will be used to train the next generation of mosquito specialists. Furthermore, the collection itself will play a critical role in the identification of mosquito species as disease carriers. Historically, the identification of insect vectors of disease has been challenging, and is based on the meticulous accumulation of data and specimens over many years, and across large geographical areas. After incorporating the donated material, the BME collection will include specimens from around the world, collected over the last 60 or more years. It will be one of the three largest and most complete mosquito collections in the Western Hemisphere. It will be particularly valuable because it is located on the campus of the University of California Davis, which is the west coast center for the study of insect-borne diseases.

摘要：博哈特博物馆莫斯特收藏品的现代化，#0346603在L博士的指导下，加州大学戴维斯分校获得了一笔赠款。Kimsey将使Bohart昆虫学博物馆（BME）的蚊子收藏现代化。 2001年至2002年期间，向BME捐赠了四批蚊子标本，共计近175，000个标本。 这些捐赠使BME的蚊子总数增加了150%，在之前的384种物种基础上增加了377种新物种。 在捐赠的材料中有许多未描述的物种。 每一个捐赠的收藏品包括固定的成年人，显微镜载玻片安装的幼虫和蛹，以及酒精保存的幼虫和蛹。有了这笔资金，BME的工作人员将把捐赠藏品的标本提升到可接受的策展标准，并将它们与BME现有的藏品结合成一个整体。BME的工作人员将解决捐赠藏品的许多策展问题。首先，许多标本只标有代码编号，这些代码编号指的是随标本一起收集的记录和野外手册。 这些标本将被正确标记并输入博物馆收藏数据库。 其次，一些钉扎的标本是用腐蚀性软木块安装的，并将使用适当的钉扎介质重新安装。 最后，所有酒精保存的标本都装在带有腐烂橡胶或氯丁橡胶塞子的玻璃小瓶中，并将转移到更合适的酒精小瓶中。 此外，通过这些收藏品的管理过程，BME工作人员将培训本科生和研究生成为蚊子分类学和系统学专家。 在培训结束时，这些学生将完全有资格在灭蚊区或病媒控制机构就业。蚊子是世界上最常见的病原体病媒。通过改善BME的收集，它将是唯一一个位于大学的规模，因此它将用于培训下一代蚊子专家。此外，收集本身将在确定作为疾病携带者的蚊子物种方面发挥关键作用。从历史上看，昆虫病媒的识别一直具有挑战性，并且基于多年来在大地理区域内细致积累的数据和标本。 在整合捐赠的材料后，BME的收藏将包括来自世界各地的标本，这些标本是在过去60年或更长时间内收集的。 这将是西半球三个最大和最完整的蚊子收藏之一。 它将特别有价值，因为它位于加州戴维斯大学的校园内，这是西海岸昆虫传播疾病研究中心。