200 years of marine research at Senckenberg: selected highlights

Access to Marine Genetic Resources (MGR): Raising Awareness of Best-Practice Through a New Agreement for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)

“…Greater open access to samples is critical for the research community, and would facilitate collaboration between deepsea investigators and expert taxonomists from understudied groups, and would be of great benefit to deep-sea research. For example, The German Centre for Biodiversity Research (DZMB) tracks specimens and data obtained during German expeditions (including third party usage), and following species identification, sends vouchers to the natural history collections of Senckenberg (Brandt et al, 2018). In some cases, archive of a physical sample is not possible, for example, where a specimen is completely consumed during analysis and all that is left is resulting data, not even a DNA voucher.…”

Preface—biodiversity of Icelandic waters

“…Sorting revealed that the samples contained several hundred thousands of marine invertebrates spanning the diversity of animal life. Under supervision of the German Centre of Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB Hamburg, Germany; see also Brandt et al 2017) and the Icelandic cooperation partner (University of Iceland, Sandgerði sorting centre, Iceland), samples have been sorted into taxonomic groups down to family level (e.g., Annelida, Isopoda, Amphipoda). This has provided specialists access to their groups of interest and provided material to publish on diverse topics spanning several taxa.…”