Sentence examples for museum skins from inspiring English sources

Specifically, Beehler hoped to discover the home of the golden-fronted bowerbird, a bird so rare that it was known only from four dusty old museum skins purchased from locals in the mid-1800s.

Many individuals were brought to Europe as cagebirds, and 19 museum skins exist today.

There is some evidence for other mammals as pollinators; B. attenuata-like pollen was recovered from museum skins of dunnarts (Sminthopsis spp).

Only two endemic Caribbean macaw species are known from physical remains; the Cuban macaw (Ara tricolor) is known from nineteen museum skins and subfossils, and the Saint Croix macaw (Ara autochthones), is only known from subfossils.

However, Sandy Bartle, curator of birds at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, said that the complete huia genome could not be derived from museum skins because of the poor state of the DNA, and cloning was therefore unlikely to succeed.

DNA from museum skins was isolated in a dedicated ancient extraction laboratory in which no modern or post-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) samples are handled.

"The results were very similar whether we used handbook plates or museum skin data," Dale says.

Our reconstructions were based on substantial mtDNA (4 kb) and nuclear intron (4 loci, 3 kb total) sequences from 16 species, augmented by mtDNA NDII gene sequences (1 kb) for the remaining 10 taxa for which DNAs were available only from museum skin samples.

In 2005, a new species of chewing louse, Psittacobrosus bechsteini, was described based on a dead specimen discovered on a museum skin of the Cuban macaw.

We followed the museum skin DNA extraction protocol described in Mullen and Hoekstra [ 44].

Full-length sequences could not be obtained from five museum skin samples.