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| ARBELÁEZ-CORTÉS,Enrique; TORRES,María Fernanda; LÓPEZ-ÁLVAREZ,Diana; PALACIO-MEJÍA,Juan Diego; MENDOZA,Ángela María; MEDINA,Claudia Alejandra. |
| Collections of frozen tissue samples stand as keystone sources of molecular information to construct biodiversity knowledge, and are particularly challenged if they focus on megadiverse countries. In 1998 the Humboldt Institute (Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt) began a tissue collection of Colombian biodiversity (IAvH-CT) and the aim of this work is to present a diagnostic and an historical perspective for that collection, constructed by compiling information and experiences on its management as well as by organizing and curating the information of each catalogued sample. After 16 years, the IAvH-CT harbors 16,469 samples, which represent around 2530 species from 1289 genera, and 323 families of the Colombian... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Biological collections; Biorepository; Birds; Cryoconservation; Neotropics; Plants. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-548X2015000200016 |
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