Managing Editor, Nancy Klemme Scientific Editor, Vinnie Della Speranza, Vol. XLIII, No. 1 June 2010 MS, HTL(ASCP)HT, MT Treasures in Archived Histopathology Collections: Preserving the Past for (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service, and other agencies and Future Understanding academic institutions. The RTLA is a specimen depository and information Doranne Borsay Horowitz, BS, HT(ASCP)1; Esther C. Peters, PhD2; clearinghouse of cases submitted by Inke Sunila, PhD3; Jeffrey C. Wolf, DVM4 researchers from around the world, providing slides of neoplasms1,2 and
[email protected] related diseases among reptiles, amphibians, fish, sharks, mollusks, 1US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research & Development, National Health & Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI arthropods, echinoderms, and coral. 2Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA These archived collections are valuable 3 State of Connecticut, Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Aquaculture, Milford, CT resources for scientists seeking to 4Experimental Pathology Laboratories, Sterling, VA understand health and disease in diverse species (Fig. 1), for training new aquatic Abstract pathologists, predicting risks from biotic and abiotic stressors (eg, toxicant impacts Extensive collections of histopathology materials from studies of marine and on organisms in multiple locations), freshwater fish, mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms, and other organisms are archived determining disease status through at the Registry of Tumors in Lower Animals (RTLA), the US Environmental DNA extraction and analysis, supplying Protection Agency (EPA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data for historical reconstructions (eg, when a virus first affected a host species), A B IN THIS ISSUE Treasures in Archived Histopathology Collections: Preserving the Past for Future Understanding .