Integrating Biodiversity Infrastructure into Pathogen Discovery and Mitigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases

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The authors are members of a collaboration called Viral Muse, which seeks to unite virology, disease ecology, and natural history collections. We thank the following organizations for support during the preparation of this article: iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections, supported by US National Science Foundation grants no. DBI-1115210 for 2011-2018 and no. DBI-1547229 for 2016-2021), the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, and the Distributed System of Scientific Collections. MV thanks the Belgian One Health Network for support. JAC acknowledges support by US National Science Foundation grants no. DBI-1561342 and DBI-1901920. FAAK is supported by grant no. F07/FRGS/1878/2019 from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. RY is supported by grant no. P30GM114737 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health.