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A new species of Parasesarma (Brachyura, Sesarmidae) from Western Australia, with a key to the species from Australia [PDF]

ZooKeys
Nine species of Parasesarma are currently recorded from continental Australian mangroves. The present study describes a new species, P. otiense sp. nov., from Western Australia. Parasesarma otiense sp. nov. occurs sympatrically with P.
Adnan Shahdadi, Andrew M. Hosie, Ana Hara, Benny K. K. Chan   +3 more
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Museums – Collections – Interpretations [PDF]

Civilisations, 2005
Introduction « Museums are about cannibals and glass boxes, a fate they cannot seem to escape no matter how hard they try. » (Michael M. Ames 1992 : 3) The cover of this volume of Civilisations shows a very recent museum, built in a small Japanese city called Kanazawa, situated in the western part of Tokyo near the Japanese Sea. It is the Museum of the
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Library preparation method and DNA source influence endogenous DNA recovery from 100‐year‐old avian museum specimens

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Museum specimens collected prior to cryogenic tissue storage are increasingly being used as genetic resources, and though high‐throughput sequencing is becoming more cost‐efficient, whole genome sequencing (WGS) of historical DNA (hDNA) remains ...
Amie E. Settlecowski, Ben D. Marks, Joseph D. Manthey   +2 more
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Colonization by tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus Skuse, 1894) of mountain areas over 600 m above sea level in the surroundings of Trento city, Northeast Italy

Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research
Originally from Southeast Asia, the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is now found almost everywhere in the world. Additionally, it spread throughout all of Northeastern Italy’s cities, including Trento, and settled in the Alpine regions.
Giulia Battistin, Alessandra Franceschini, Francesca Paoli, Valeria Lencioni   +3 more
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Human and dog Bayesian dietary mixing models using bone collagen stable isotope ratios from ancestral Iroquoian sites in southern Ontario

Scientific Reports, 2023
Under the archaeological canine surrogacy approach (CSA) it is assumed that because dogs were reliant on humans for food, they had similar diets to the people with whom they lived.
John P. Hart
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DATA MODELING FOR MUSEUM COLLECTIONS [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
Abstract. 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. Recent research activities are the result of the progressive strengthening of digital technologies and the needs ...
Lo Turco, Massimiliano, Calvano, Michele, Giovannini, Elisabetta Caterina   +2 more
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Australia’s marine fishes DNA barcode reference library for integrated taxonomy, metabarcoding & eDNA research

Scientific Data
Over 15 000 species of fishes are found globally in the marine environment and DNA barcodes are used extensively to describe, catalogue, understand and manage this diversity.
Sharon A. Appleyard, Robert D. Ward, John J. Pogonoski, Alastair Graham, Peter R. Last, Bruce E. Deagle, Bronwyn Holmes, Martin F. Gomon, Dianne J. Bray, Jeffrey W. Johnson, Amanda C. Hay, Glenn I. Moore, Michael P. Hammer, Barry Russell, Ken J. Graham   +14 more
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A summer in Siberia: the travel and the collection itinerary to the mouth of the Ob River by the botanist and ethno-anthropologist Stéphen Sommier in 1880

Journal of Maps
Stéphen Sommier (1848–1922) was a renowned botanist, plant collector, ethnographer, geographer and photographer. He is best known for his scientific expeditions to Italy, Scandinavia and Russia.
Daniele Viciani, Lorella Dell’Olmo, Anna Bernardini, Anna Donatelli, Chiara Nepi, Maria Gloria Roselli, Lorenzo Lastrucci   +6 more
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All Is Not Quiet on the Western Front: High Host–Parasite (Echinodermata and Caenogastropoda) Diversity Revealed at an Australian Marine Transition Zone

Diversity
While substantial eulimid diversity has been revealed in the Indo-West Pacific marine diversity hotspot, many neighbouring areas are still unexplored, including in Western Australia.
Henry Carrick, Lisa Kirkendale
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Johannes Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid: new discoveries cast light on changes to the composition and the discoloration of some paint passages

Heritage Science, 2020
Among the thirty-six paintings ascribed to the Dutch seventeenth century artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), Mistress and Maid, in The Frick Collection, stands out for the large-scale figures set against a rather plain background depicting a barely ...
Dorothy Mahon, Silvia A. Centeno, Margaret Iacono, Federico Carό, Heike Stege, Andrea Obermeier   +5 more
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