Biobanks that did not aim to share specimens were excluded, as were biobanks without some focus on domestic research.
Since Brown's original publication had treated all of Fraser's specimens as syntypes (shared type specimens) for the species, George also chose a lectotype (a single specimen to serve as the type specimen).
Alleles D1, D2, and D3 were shared between specimens with D. galeata mtDNA and those with D. dentifera mtDNA.
The most common COI+cytB haplotype was shared by specimens from Spain, Turkey, Kenya, Namibia, Madagascar, Laos, and Vietnam, spanning a distance of over 9,000 km or 100 longitudinal degrees on three continents (Figs. 1, 2A, Table 1).
For Loechner and McLauglin (now married) romance began not over a shared dessert at dinner, but over a shared research specimen, a slug.
There was one instance of barcode sharing by members of different genera: Rhinocapsus vanduzeei (2 of 3 specimens) shared sequences with 2 of 5 specimens of Plagiognathus morrisoni, and maximum distance between specimens of R. vanduzeei and members of the P. fuscipes species group (P. emarginatae, fuscipes and morrisoni) was 0.806%.
That stated, it is important to share novel specimens with the CDC for the purpose of public health.
A significant minority was worried that sharing their specimens with researchers outside Nigeria could lead to conduct of research that will further stigmatize Nigerians internationally and worsen discrimination against Nigerians.
Similar to that of the work of the recently launched Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance, many initiatives all over the world are being created where scientists and researchers have articulated a need for greater collaboration in digitally capturing and sharing scientific specimens (http://www.niballiance.org/).org/
In G. cristata, the three Chadian light-plumaged isabellina specimens shared the most common haplotype of the cristata lineage (Cri_MO_6, see Table 4), while the Algerian light-plumaged type specimen of helenae had the most common senegallensis haplotype (Cri_AL_1).
