Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation

  • Amber Hartman Scholz,
  • Jens Freitag,
  • Christopher H. C. Lyal,
  • Rodrigo Sara,
  • Martha Lucia Cepeda,
  • Ibon Cancio,
  • Scarlett Sett,
  • Andrew Lee Hufton,
  • Yemisrach Abebaw,
  • Kailash Bansal,
  • Halima Benbouza,
  • Hamadi Iddi Boga,
  • Sylvain Brisse,
  • Michael W. Bruford,
  • Hayley Clissold,
  • Guy Cochrane,
  • Jonathan A. Coddington,
  • Anne-Caroline Deletoille,
  • Felipe García-Cardona,
  • Michelle Hamer,
  • Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz,
  • Douglas W. Miano,
  • David Nicholson,
  • Guilherme Oliveira,
  • Carlos Ospina Bravo,
  • Fabian Rohden,
  • Ole Seberg,
  • Gernot Segelbacher,
  • Yogesh Shouche,
  • Alejandra Sierra,
  • Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi,
  • Jessica da Silva,
  • Desiree M. Hautea,
  • Manuela da Silva,
  • Mutsuaki Suzuki,
  • Kassahun Tesfaye,
  • Christian Keambou Tiambo,
  • Krystal A. Tolley,
  • Rajeev Varshney,
  • María Mercedes Zambrano,
  • Jörg Overmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28594-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Ensuring international benefit-sharing from sequence data without jeopardising open sharing is a major obstacle for the Convention on Biological Diversity and other UN negotiations. Here, the authors propose a solution to address the concerns of both developing countries and life scientists.