Point of View: The challenges faced by living stock collections in the USA

Fungal Genetics Stock Center, Kansas State University, United States
University of California, Davis, United States
Duke University, United States
University of South Carolina, United States
University of California, San Diego, United States
The Ohio State University, United States

Mar 7, 2017

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24611

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A selection of public living research collections in the USA.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24611.002

Collection name	Acronym	Holdings	Host	Support
Microbial collections
American Type Culture Collection	ATCC	18,000 bacterial and 7,600 fungal type strains	ATCC	Users, government contracts
BEI Resources	BEI	13,000 strains and reagents for emerging pathogen research	ATCC	NIAID
Fungal Genetics Stock Center	FGSC	25,000 filamentous fungi including mutants, genetic testers, wild strains, plasmids and mutant sets	Kansas State University	NSF (1961–2014), KSU, user fees
Phaff Yeast Culture Collection	UCDFST	7,500 wild-type yeast	University of California, Davis	UC, NSF, user fees
E. coli Genetic Stock Center	CGSC	8,000 mutant and wild K12 E. coli	Yale University	NSF, user fees
Bacillus Genetic Stock Center	BGSC	2,600 mutant and wild Bacillus subtilis	The Ohio State University	NSF, user fees
International Culture Collection of (Vesicular) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi	INVAM	1,112 vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	West Virginia University	NSF, user fees
World Phytophthora Collection	WPC	10,000 wild oomycete fungi	University of California, Riverside	UCR
USDA ARS Culture Collection	NRRL	95,000 agricultural and industrial fungi and bacteria	USDA National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research	USDA
USDA ARS Collection of Entomopathogenic Fungal Cultures	ARSEF	13,000 fungal cultures	USDA Robert W. Holley Center Center	USDA
UTEX Culture Collection of Algae	UTEX	3,000 freshwater algae	University of Texas, Austin	NSF, user fees
National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota	NCMA	2,800 algal cultures, viral and bacterial associates	Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences	NSF, user fees
The Chlamydomonas Resource Center	Chlamy	4,000 mutant and wild type strains	University of Minnesota	NSF, user fees
Animal and cell line collections
Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center	BDSC	Over 50,000 Drosophila genetic stocks	Indiana University	NIH, user fees, HHMI
Duke Lemur Center	DLC	250 living and 4,000 historic individual Strepsirrhine primates, with a biosample bank of >10,000 samples	Duke University	NSF, user fees
Drosophila Species Stock Center	DSSC	Flies	University of California San Diego	NSF, user fees
Jackson Laboratories	JAX	Mice	Jackson Labs	User fees
Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center	PGSC	At least 4 species and several coat color and behavioral mutants of deer mice	University of South Carolina	NSF, user fees
Plant collections and seed banks
Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center	ABRC	~1 million Seeds and DNA Stocks	The Ohio State University	NSF, user fees
Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center	MGCSC	Over 100,000 maize variants	University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign	USDA-ARS
National Plant Germplasm System	NPGS	576,991 Plant accessions	Distributed around the US and backed up at the USDA NLGRP in Ft. Collins	USDA-ARS