Over a Century of Releasing Domestic Ducks Altered Wild Mallard Genetics
A century of releasing captive game-farm ducks has introduced significant domestic ancestry and reduced genetic diversity among wild North American ...
Tag: museum specimens
Global review of bull shark Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) museum specimens: summary of records, geographic analysis, and assessment of their scientific value
A sweeping audit of the world's natural history collections has catalogued 964 preserved voucher specimens of the bull shark, Carcharhinus ...
Museum Pickling Warps Fish Body Measurements for a Decade, Study Finds
A ten-year study of the large-lip killifish shows museum preservation cuts specimen weight by nearly 34 percent and permanently inflates ...
Moth Genus Hypocala Reviewed Across China With New Genitalia-Based Diagnoses
A museum-based review of the moth genus Hypocala in China provides updated descriptions, genitalia illustrations and an identification key for ...
Antarctic Fish Parasite Confirmed as Distinct Species Through DNA and Morphology
An integrative morphological and molecular study supports Pseudobenedenia lauriei as a valid parasitic flatworm species infecting the Antarctic fish Notothenia ...
AI Reads Museum Labels and Pins Down Where Specimens Were Collected
A new evaluation of twelve AI models finds that large language models can georeference museum specimen labels with kilometre-scale accuracy, ...
Century of Stonefly Records Compiled Into New West Virginia Occurrence Dataset
The dataset, described in a data paper in the Biodiversity Data Journal, contains 4,612 specimen records arranged in 6,267 rows, ...
First records of a little-known vine snake extend its range deep into Bolivia
Museum specimens from Bolivian collections reveal the first confirmed records of the vine snake Oxybelis inkaterra in Bolivia, extending its ...
Pollen DNA from museum bumblebees reveals 50-year shift away from Fabaceae foraging
Pollen metabarcoding of bumblebee museum specimens from 1968/69 and field-caught bees from 2019 near Cuxhaven, Germany, reveals a shift in ...
A myriad of mysteries on many legs: Disentangling the systematics of Myriapoda with UCEs
Researchers have built and tested a new ultraconserved-element probe set for Myriapoda, producing the most comprehensive genomic phylogeny yet of ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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