RAPID: CSBR: Emergency Rescue of the Saint Louis University's Genetic Resources & Collection to The University of Alabama Ichthyological Collection

自1983年成立以来，圣刘易斯大学博物馆的遗传资源收藏（GRC）收集了大约63，000份来自6，600多种淡水和海洋鱼类的编目和担保标本或组织。GRC包含重要的时间样本，北美类群的广泛种内地理采样，亚洲淡水鱼类的广泛分类学采样，重点是东南亚，以及许多全球分布的海洋物种。其中许多标本是在生命之树和行星生物清单项目期间由NSF资助收集的。 2017年5月25日，博物馆和GRC的所在地Macelwane Hall经历了一场火灾，导致整个建筑物的结构，水和烟灰损坏。在这一事件之后，圣刘易斯大学决定不再支持或维护博物馆或GRC。 因此，如果不进行抢救，这一极其宝贵的收藏品将丢失给全球科学界。 本项目的目标是将GRC转移到亚拉巴马大学鱼类学收藏馆（UAIC）。将这些标本转移到UAIC将确保这些标本的长期管理，并通过我们的门户网站（specifyweb.as.ua.edu）或我们的四个分布式信息项目合作伙伴（GBIF，FishNet 2，VertNet和iDigBio Hub）提供对标本的访问。 学生在分子系统学，人口和保护遗传学，基因组学和转录组学的研究机会将得到加强，由于在这个宝贵的集合中包含的标本和组织的分类多样性和全球分布。该项目将圣刘易斯大学博物馆的遗传资源收藏（GRC）的所有权转让给亚拉巴马大学鱼类收藏（UAIC），为从世界各地收集的淡水和海洋鱼类的冷冻和95%乙醇保存的标本和组织样本提供即时救援和策展干预。 将GRC样本添加到UAIC中？的组织和DNA收集极大地丰富和补充材料，目前在UAIC在物种和标本的数量。 从东南亚收集的GRC中的许多标本是不可替代的，代表了时间密集的研究文件。此外，基因组学、转录组学和蛋白质组学研究可以用这些样品进行，因为许多组织或全身标本在收集时直接置于液氮中，并连续保持在-80 ℃。 通过将这些收藏品合并起来，并通过多个生物多样性信息传播伙伴提供这些标本或组织，科学界将继续获得记录世界各地水生生物多样性的宝贵遗传资源。 此外，这些标本的数字数据将通过门户网站（specifyweb.as.ua.edu）或四个分布式信息资源（GBIF，FishNet 2，VertNet和iDigBio）提供。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Saint Louis University Museum's Genetic Resources & Collections (GRC) amassed a collection of approximately 63,000 catalogued and vouched specimens or tissues from over 6,600 species of freshwater and marine fishes since its beginning in 1983. The GRC contains important temporal samples, extensive within-species geographic sampling for North American taxa, a broad taxonomic sampling of freshwater fishes from Asia, with an emphasis on SE Asia, and many globally distributed marine species. Many of these specimens were collected with funding from NSF during Tree of Life and Planetary Biotic Inventory projects. On May 25, 2017, Macelwane Hall, home to the Museum and GRC, experienced a fire that caused extensive structural, water, and soot damage throughout the building. Following this incident, Saint Louis University determined that it would no longer support or maintain either the museum or the GRC. Thus, without rescue this extremely valuable collection would otherwise be lost to the global scientific community. The goal of this project is to transfer the GRC to The University of Alabama Ichthyological Collection (UAIC). Transferring this collection into UAIC will ensure long-term curation of this collection, as well as providing access to the specimens through our web portal (specifyweb.as.ua.edu) or from our four distributed information project partners (GBIF, FishNet2, VertNet, and iDigBio Hub). Student research opportunities in molecular systematics, population and conservation genetics, genomics, and transcriptomics will be enhanced due to the taxonomic diversity and global distribution of specimens and tissues contained in this invaluable collection. This project transfers ownership of Saint Louis University Museum's Genetic Resources & Collection (GRC) to The University of Alabama Ichthyological Collection (UAIC), providing immediate rescue and curatorial intervention to a very large and valuable collection of frozen and 95% ethanol-preserved specimens and tissue samples from freshwater and marine fishes collected from around the world. Addition of the GRC specimens into UAIC?s Tissues and DNA Collection greatly enriches and supplements materials currently in UAIC in both number of species and specimens. Many specimens in the GRC collected from Southeast Asia are irreplaceable and represent time-intensive research documentation. In addition, genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic studies are possible with these samples because many of the tissues or whole-body specimens were placed directly into liquid nitrogen upon collection and have been maintained continuously at -80 degrees C. By uniting these collections and providing access to these specimens or tissues through multiple biodiversity information distribution partners, the scientific community will continue to have access to an invaluable genetic resource that documents aquatic biodiversity from around the world. In addition, digital data for these specimens will become available through a portal (specifyweb.as.ua.edu) or from four distributed information resources (GBIF, FishNet2, VertNet, and iDigBio).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.