Historical museum collections and contemporary population studies implicate roads and introduced predatory bullfrogs in the decline of western pond turtles. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The western pond turtle (WPT), recently separated into two paripatrically distributed species (Emys pallida and Emys marmorata), is experiencing significant reductions in its range and population size. In addition to habitat loss, two potential causes of
Nicholson EG +8 more
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Widespread male sex bias in mammal fossil and museum collections. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Significance The extent to which the fossil record provides an accurate picture of past life is an important issue that is often difficult to assess. We genetically sexed 277 mammalian subfossils using high-throughput sequencing of ancient DNA, and found
Gower G +10 more
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Robbery in progress: Historical museum collections bring to light a mitochondrial capture within a bird species widespread across southern Australia, the Copperback Quail‐thrush Cinclosoma clarum [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 We surveyed mitochondrial, autosomal, and Z chromosome diversity within and between the Copperback Quail‐thrush Cinclosoma clarum and Chestnut Quail‐thrush C.
Kerensa McElroy +7 more
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DATA MODELING FOR MUSEUM COLLECTIONS [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 . The relationship between cultural heritage, digital technologies and visual models involves an increasingly wide area of research, oriented towards the renewal of archives and museums for the preservation and promotion of culture.
M. Turco, Michele Calvano, E. Giovannini
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Peptide sequences from the first Castoroides ohioensis skull and the utility of old museum collections for palaeoproteomics. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2016 Vertebrate fossils have been collected for hundreds of years and are stored in museum collections around the world. These remains provide a readily available resource to search for preserved proteins; however, the vast majority of palaeoproteomic studies
Cleland TP +3 more
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Opening the treasure chest: A DNA-barcoding primer set for most higher taxa of Central European birds and mammals from museum collections. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 DNA-barcoding is a rapidly developing method for efficiently identifying samples to species level by means of short standard DNA sequences. However, reliable species assignment requires the availability of a comprehensive DNA barcode reference library ...
Schäffer S, Zachos FE, Koblmüller S.
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People-Powered Research and Experiential Learning: Unravelling Hidden Biodiversity [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2022 Globally, thousands of institutions house nearly three billion scientific collections offering unparallelled resources that contribute to both science and society.
Melanie Pivarski +60 more
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A global approach for natural history museum collections
Science, 2023 Description Integration of the world’s natural history collections can provide a resource for decision-makers Over the past three centuries, people have collected objects and specimens and placed them in natural history museums throughout the world ...
Kirk R. Johnson, I. P. Owens
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This is not an apple! Benefits and challenges of applying computer vision to museum collections
Museum Management and Curatorship, 2021 The application of computer vision on museum collection data is at an experimental stage with predictions that it will grow in significance and use in the coming years.
Elena Villaespesa, O. Murphy
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DiSSCo Prepare Project: Increasing the Implementation Readiness Levels of the European Research Infrastructure [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2023 The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for Natural Science Collections. The DiSSCo RI aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European
Dimitrios Koureas +4 more
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