The 100% success rate on the beetle specimens from museum collections dating back 188 years suggests that the non-destructive extraction procedure tested has considerable potential for sampling historical insect material, even when more than 100 years older than the specimens originally tested with the method [16].
To tackle these complexities, we need to carefully consider research design, population sample, historical period, measurement, and analyis to ensure validity of study findings.
We sampled historical and contemporary samples from western and southern Texas to examine how (i) genetic diversity, (ii) genetic differentiation and (iii) effective population size have changed over time.
We thank staff from the World Museum, National Museums Liverpool, in particular Alex Blakeborough, Clemency Fisher, Guy Knight, Tony Parker and Nathan Pendlebury for their part in providing access to the specimen, as well as sampling, historical research, providing images and helpful discussions.
To minimize the risk of cross-sample contamination, historical and contemporary samples were kept separate during all steps.
With the help of the British Film Institute, the British band fuses electronic music with samples from historical films and footage.
Liu's work samples the historical layers of Tokyo, from ancient Edo to the modern metropolis, and combines them into a teetering tower informed by comics, ink paintings and woodblock prints.
The RFFM was validated with reproduced discharge samples of historical storm events and then applied to extreme flood frequency estimation.
The authors would like to thank the Jokhang temple Management Committee for supplying the wall painting samples and historical background.
RODRIGO [105] is one of the very large databases containing diverse samples of historical manuscripts in Spanish.
