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The BCCM consoritum wants to be a solution partner for providing services of quality in microbial and genetic resources for academia and industry. Its mission is to •acquire, preserve and distribute microbial and genetic resources, •identify and characterize these biological materials, •offer customer-oriented services, •increase the understanding of microorganisms and their function in ecosystems, •foster the application of biological resources. The BCCM consortium gathers 7 complementary microbial culture collections that are coordinated by a central at the Belgian Science Policy.

The BCCM/DCG culture collection is part of the BCCM consortium (Belgian Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms) and is hosted at Ghent University. Our collection is specialized in freshwater and marine diatoms but also hosts dedicated collections of commercially interesting other microalgae. Whereas public deposit is free of charge, we also offer safe deposits. The BCCM/DCG culture collection currently holds over 500 cryopreserved and well-documented diatom strains.

BCCM/GeneCorner is a partner of the Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms (BCCM). Funded by the Belgian Science Policy (Belspo), BCCM/GeneCorner, previously known as BCCM/LMBP, is a unique plasmid repository in Europe. BCCM/GeneCorner warrants the long-term storage and distribution of plasmids, microbial host strains and DNA libraries of fundamental, biotechnological, educational or general scientific importance. BCCM/GeneCorner also accepts natural and genetically modified animal or human cell lines, including hybridomas, as well as other genetic material, in the safe deposit and patent deposit collections. BCCM/GeneCorner provides the following services: - characterisation tests: plasmid profile analysis, bacteriophage contamination testing, plasmid sequencing and annotation, ...; - gene technology services: plasmid DNA extraction (small and large scale); - training & consultancy: training on plasmids and host cells, consultancy, collaboration, customized services BCCM/GeneCorner is ISO 9001:2015 certified for accession, control, preservation, storage and supply of biological material and related information in the frame of public deposits, safe deposits and patent deposits.

The BCCM/IHEM collection is part of the BCCM consortium (Belgian Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms) and is hosted at the Scientific Institute of Public Health in Brussels. Our collection is specialized in biomedical fungi, i.e. infectious agents, allergy causing species and mycotoxin producers. The collection holds over 16000 isolates and accepts public, patent and safe deposits.

The BCCM/ITM collection is part of the ISO 9001-certifified BCCM consortium (Belgian Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms) and is hosted at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. Our collection is specialized in mycbobacteria from human, animal and environmental origin. The collection holds over 700 freeze-dried strains and DNA extracts for a selection of them. We accept public and safe deposits, and distribute viable bacilli as well as DNA extracts.

The BCCM consoritum wants to be a solution partner for providing services of quality in microbial and genetic resources for academia and industry. Its mission is to •acquire, preserve and distribute microbial and genetic resources, •identify and characterize these biological materials, •offer customer-oriented services, •increase the understanding of microorganisms and their function in ecosystems, •foster the application of biological resources. The BCCM consortium gathers 7 complementary microbial culture collections that are coordinated by a central at the Belgian Science Policy.

The BCCM/MUCL collection is part of the BCCM consortium (Belgian Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms) and is hosted at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). Our collection is specialized in lignocellulolytic fungi, fungi involved in food processing and spoilage, fermentative yeasts, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, fungal pathogens in tropical environments. The collection holds over 30000 strains of filamentous and yeast-like fungi and accepts public, patent and safe deposits.

The BCCM/ULC collection is part of the BCCM consortium (Belgian Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms) and is hosted by the InBios-Centre for Protein Engineering at the University of Liège. BCCM/ULC is a dedicated public collection, currently containing one of the largest collection of documented (sub)polar cyanobacteria worldwide. The collection holds 240 strains, of which the majority is characterized by phenotypic (morphological features based on microscopic observations) and genotypic (16S rRNA and ITS sequences) analyses. The three most important orders of cyanobacteria (Chroococcales, Oscillatoriales, Nostocales) are represented. The strains are unicyanobacterial, but not axenic. They are available as living cultures, and the majority is being cryopreserved (-80°C).

The Bishop Museum houses the most comprehensive collection of cultural artifacts and natural history specimens from across the Pacific. Of the more than 6 million natural history specimens, many from species endemic to single islands or island archipelagos, a small portion have already been sampled and cryopreserved in the Pacific Center for Molecular Biodiversity. We are currently working to biobank tissue samples from the nearly 10,000 endemic species and many of the non-native taxa in Hawaii, as well as many of the Pacific Island collections housed at the museum.

The Texas A&M Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections (formerly the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection) is maintained by staff and faculty of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and is one of several natural history collections within the Texas A&M system. The facility houses important collections of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, parasites, and marine invertebrates that are available for use by the scientific community. Visit our collections pages to learn more about each division.

The DNA bank of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem holds currently a collection of 20.000 plant DNA and tissue samples growing constantly. Its core collection focuses on the flora of the Berlin and Brandenburg but it also preserves DNA from the Alps, the Mediterranean and the Altai Mountains as well as more than 2000 diatom DNA samples.

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CBG Collections maintains a globally unique natural history collection of 3.3 million specimens. Every specimen is digitized, and the exact storage location of each specimen is tracked in a collection management information system for quick reference and retrieval. The databased information for every voucher is also archived in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD; www.boldsystems.org), permitting the permanent storage, validation and analysis of barcode sequence data and associated specimen metadata. Most (88.6%) of the specimens have been DNA barcoded, and a few representatives of every species have been digitally imaged.

This collection comprises specimen vouchers and tissue samples of most of the peruvian herpetofauna species: 436 species of amphibians and 337 species of reptiles, which comprises 74% of the amphibian and 69% of the reptile diversity, this according to the current diversity recorded for Peru. This is expresed in the more than 18,000 voucher specimens we store, and the more than 6,200 tissue samples, numbers that are growing constantly.

The collection contains tissue and extracted DNA samples of vertebrates, namely birds. The samples origin from wild animals (e.g. European free-living bird collection) as well as men-reared species, including parrots and chickens collected mainly in Europe from birds kept by hobby breeders. Tissue samples represent mainly blood, but part of the samples is derived from other tissues and feathers. Related collections: Tissue and DNA Collection of Free-Living Birds of the Czech Republic"