Sequencing DNA from a museum specimen doesn't quite work like a barcode reader at the supermarket checkout.

Euclid is a museum specimen.

It was a former museum specimen and cost a fortune; she had a few bad nights, worrying whether it had actually been a legal purchase.

Such a fauna is found fossil in another layer of tuff covering the slope of Denise, opposite to that where the museum specimen was exhumed.

Here we present a molecular phylogeny of this radiation using data from museum specimens.

They can go back to museum specimens and identify what genes have been lost.

The photographs of American Museum specimens are by Mr. A.E.

Museum specimen from Similkameen Valley, collected by R. V. Griffin.

Lonchophylla inexpectata is the seventh bat species Dr Moratelli has found by examining museum specimens.

You may see in museums specimens of this family, now so rare, all but extinct.

So much for beetles that eat museum specimens.

A Museum Specimen Must Be Preserved Entire

He shot two of the big marsh-deer, a buck and a doe, and preserved them as museum specimens.

For genetic analyses, we obtained blood or tissue samples from captured or necropsied individuals or from museum specimens.

It had only ever been known from three museum specimens, the last of which had been collected in 1895.

But at least one of these extinct tortoises could make a comeback, thanks to museum specimens and close relatives.