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| Moraes-Barros,Nadia de; Morgante,João Stenghel. |
| Museum collections have been widely used as sources of biological samples for molecular biology studies and there are several methodologies and techniques to obtain and analyze DNA from tissues archived in museums, but most of these protocols have been developed for a specific tissue or are commercial kits. We present a simple protocol for extracting and amplifying DNA segments from sloth museum specimens. With this simple protocol we analyzed DNA fragments from 64% of 64 skin samples from three-toed sloths (Bradypus variegatus and Bradypus tridactylus) archived in three different museums: 43 samples from the University of São Paulo Museum of Zoology (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, MUZUSP) São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; 18 samples from the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Bradypus; DNA; Dried skins; Museum specimens. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572007000600024 |
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| Hume, J.P.; Prys-Jones, R.P.. |
| The faunal history of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues) has been extensively documented, with most information being derived from the fossil record, museum skins, the journals and logbooks of early mariners and contemporary illustrations. However, our research on original sources, including Dutch journals held at The Hague, and archival correspondence and fossil collections, notably at The Natural History Museum, London, and the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, indicates that many problems remain to be resolved. This situation has been exacerbated by exchange schemes amongst museums, personal rivalries, misidentification, lack of comparative material, and inadequate provenance of specimens; furthermore, problematic and... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Mascarene Islands; Extinct birds; Iconographical evidence; Journals; Diaries; Museum specimens; Fossils; Loans and exchanges; 42.83. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210798 |
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