National Institute of Parasitic Diseases; Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology; Ministry of Health, WHO Collaborating Centre for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis; Shanghai 200025, China
Abstract：We aim to establish the parasite germplasm resources library by collecting, sorting, identifying and conserving various parasites in China. According to biological characteristics of a variety of parasite, description standards and technical specifications on both commonness and personality of parasites were established. Moreover, standardized sorting, preservation and digitized description of animal, plant and human parasites were also conducted in order to establish a unified and standardized physical library and database. The parasite germplasm resources physical library and database were established successfully, which contained 117 814 parasite germplasms covering 1 115 species in 23 classes in 11 phylum. Three preservation bases of parasite germplasm resources for living samples were constructed and the physical preservation libraries involve 15 provinces across the whole country. A total of 11 new brook crab species and one kind of worm species were founded. The website of China parasites resource network (www.psic.net.cn) has also been launched
2013, Vol. 29 
