Banco de tejidos de la Colección Biológica Grupo de Estudio Relación Parásito Hospedero

The DNA bank "Banco de tejidos de la Colección Biológica Grupo de Estudio Relación Parásito Hospedero" is part of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) which was founded in 2011. The network provides a technically optimized DNA collection service facility for all biological research, accessible via one central web portal. The network promotes deposition of well documented reference DNA samples after project completion or data publication from scientists of other universities and institutions.

The Biological collection GERPH (Grupo de Estudio de la Relación Parásito-Hospedero) is dedicated to the study of wild vertebrates blood parasites. This resource contains records of blood samples refrigerated (-20C°) and preserved in etanol, buffer SET or EDTA. The samples are from a wide range of wild vertebrates, mostly birds, but also reptiles, amphibians and mammals from different regions and ecosystems of Colombia.

Also records of vertebrates hemoparasites are included. These correspond to the orders Eucoccidiorida, Haemosporida, Piroplasmida, Rickettsiales, Onchocercidae and Trypanosomatida. Many of its genetic information is published in Bold Systems and Genbank.

These tissue samples are derived from the main resource of GBIF: 4346356a-8773-4205-95ce-57d3541017d4