Captured diversity in a culture collection: case study of the geographic and habitat distributions of environmental isolates held at the american type culture collection.

Captured Diversity in a Culture Collection: Case Study of the Geographic and Habitat Distributions of Environmental Isolates Held at the American Type Culture Collection Melissa Merrill Floyd, Jane Tang, Matthew Kane, and David Emerson* Bacteriology Program, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Virginia; Environmental Science and Policy Program, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia; and Division of Molecular and Biosciences, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia