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.
Museum samples of cinereum were more limited, but showed the majority of enlarged gonads in August through December with a pulse in March.
The same analytical methods were used for the reference resins as for the museum samples.
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.
Looking for some historical perspective, Hewson tested museum samples of sea stars collected between 1923 and 2010 along the U.S. west coast.
In 1948, the Italian zoologist Tina Franceschi claimed that tardigrades found in dried moss from museum samples over 120 years old could be reanimated.
"We thought that, like other species, such as the gray wolf, where the population has recently declined, there should be greater diversity in museum samples than modern specimens," because museum samples come from an earlier era, said Alex Greenwood, a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany.
