The Expanding Role of Natural History Collections [PDF]
Ichthyology & Herpetology, 2021 Museum specimens serve as the bedrock of systematic and taxonomic research and provide the basis for repeatability or reinterpretation of preserved aspects of phenotypes. Specimens are also fundamental to fields such as ecology, behavior, and development.
Hilton, Eric J. +2 more
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Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Hudson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source ...
A M Lister +19 more
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University museums and collections of natural history [PDF]
, 2005 Natural history museums and collections at American universities have been in decline for the past 30 years, due in part to increasing constraints on the financial support framework and the perception that natural history museums may be no longer central
Hutterer, Karl L.
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Linking natural history collections [PDF]
2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2018 Miracle, Eulalia Gasso +3 more
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At the edge of extinction: a first herpetological assessment of the proposed Serra do Pingano Rainforest National Park in Uíge Province, northern Angola [PDF]
Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2020 We systematically assess the herpetofaunal diversity of the Serra do Pingano Forest Ecosystem (SPFE) and additional localities throughout the northern Angolan province of Uíge during four independent Rapid Assessment (RA) field campaigns held between ...
Raffael Ernst +3 more
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Evolution in the dark: Unexpected genetic diversity and morphological stasis in the blind, aquifer-dwelling catfish Horaglanis [PDF]
Vertebrate Zoology, 2023 The lateritic aquifers of the southern Indian state of Kerala harbour a unique assemblage of enigmatic stygobitic fishes which are encountered very rarely, only when they surface during the digging and cleaning of homestead wells.
Rajeev Raghavan +4 more
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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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Morphological evolution in Hyles Hübner, 1819 hawkmoths (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae): reconstructing the ancestral Hyles habitus [PDF]
Nota Lepidopterologica, 2020 Molecular phylogenetic studies suggest that similar wing and body patterns in the hawkmoth genus Hyles Hübner, [1819] do not necessarily reflect a close phylogenetic relationship. To improve our understanding of morphological evolution in these organisms,
Anna K. Hundsdoerfer, Ian J. Kitching
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