Notable findings include public support for research use of anonymised un-consented tissue samples when these come from archived collections, but lack of support when they are collected prospectively.
Resulting archived collections are invaluable for studies into the phylogenetic relationships among taxa, species-level descriptions of the flora, preliminary population genetic analyses, and biogeographic studies within the Hawaiian Islands and among other tropical Pacific island systems.
A multi-center study was conducted for biomarker selection and classifier training followed by two independent blinded validation studies from archived collections assembled by the Thoraxklinik at UHH and the EDRN.
In recent years, attention has thus been drawn to archived collections of otoliths and scales as a source of DNA for long-term temporal genetic studies of natural fish populations (Nielsen and Hansen 2008; Palstra et al. 2009; Palstra and Ruzzante 2010).
Otoliths collected during the period 1948 1996 were recovered from the archived collections at the Icelandic Marine Research Institute (MRI).
Seeds were obtained from archived collections held at the USDA Western Regional Plant Introduction Station in Pullman, WA.
