The exhibition integrates specimens and images so that viewers can appreciate the importance of visual recording of each new discovery.
It is beautifully illustrated with exquisite photographs of anatomical specimens, and images from arthroscopy, histology, and radiology complete the picture.
"The expedition really laid the foundations of modern Antarctic science and we're delighted to be able to show some wonderful specimens and images from this famous expedition".
The majority of scorings taken from the literature were evaluated through personal observation of specimens and images provided by other researchers (see Acknowledgments), although published illustrations were consulted when necessary.
Passport data includes basic information about the where, when and what of an accession, e.g. information about the collecting mission or the donor institute, collection site, names, numbers; complemented by data about the availability and other status information, different crop classifications, existence of specimens and images.
DNA, specimen and image vouchers of newly sequenced material (49 specimens) were deposited at the Justus Liebig University's Systematics and Biodiversity collection (UGSB); data on other specimens (59 COI and 37 16sequenceses) was retrieved from NCBI GenBank (Table 1).
Both systems provide web-based data entry, support of cross-validation and plausibility checks, a (logical) central database, an elaborated security concept with multi-tier pseudonymity for patient-, specimen- and image-identifiers.
BLF obtained specimens, databased specimen information and images, and helped to draft the manuscript.
At the National Center for X-ray Tomography (NCXT), specimen preparation and image collection for tomographic reconstruction of a whole cell require only minutes.
