Museum samples were stored in 70% ethanol, but all museum samples had initially been fixed in formalin rendering them unsuitable for genetic analyses.
Furthermore, 24 museum samples from The Natural History Museum, Tring (U.K.; BMNH) and the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Germanyy; ZMB) - all dating back to the 19th century - were included in the study (Table 2).
Dates are reported from museum samples provenience from Saqqara, Roda and Thebes.
Recent interest in Turkish bow simply involves the replication of museum samples without any consideration about the performance characteristics of the replica.
Published reports and museum samples showed that Argentine ants first came to the United States aboard ships carrying coffee and sugar from South America during the 1890's.
The same analytical methods were used for the reference resins as for the museum samples.
In 1948, the Italian zoologist Tina Franceschi claimed that tardigrades found in dried moss from museum samples over 120 years old could be reanimated.
Looking for some historical perspective, Hewson tested museum samples of sea stars collected between 1923 and 2010 along the U.S. west coast.
The authors of the study found it in museum samples up to 72 years old, so scientists are puzzled about why the current outbreak has been so severe.
Results indicate that, while basic patterns of dental microwear are similar in museum samples and samples of live, wild-trapped animals of the same species, ecological differences between collection locales may lead to significant intraspecific differences in dental microwear.
However, the presence of ursadienol and ursadienone, though in reduced amounts in the museum sample, is not present in C. indicum or C. luzonicum, but is a component of C. salomonense.
