nmnh_material

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Description

Genetic Sample data for GGBN and other users.

Versions

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Orrell T (2016): nmnh_material_sample. v1.16. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Dataset/Occurrence. https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=nmnh_material_sample&v=1.16

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 26098c25-8f7f-4c71-97ac-1d3db181c65e. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Material sample; Genetic sample; Tissue collections; DNA collections

Contacts

Thomas Orrell

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

NMNH Informatics

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

P.O. Box 37012, MRC 136

20013-7012 Washington

DC

US

orrellt@si.edu

202-633-2151

http://collections.nmnh.si.edu

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1038-3028

Geographic Coverage

Global collections, National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Across all Phyla of Animals, Plants, and selected groups in other Kingdoms.

Kingdom	Animalia (Animals), Plantae (Plants)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period	19th Century - current

Collection Data

Collection Name	Botany
Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/i75d-97nn
Parent Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/142r-0w94

Collection Name	Invertebrate Zoology
Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/abck-1zsq
Parent Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/142r-0w94

Collection Name	Entomology
Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/1wcv-afpg
Parent Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/142r-0w94

Collection Name	Amphibians and Reptiles
Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/8vm7-e9x1
Parent Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/142r-0w94

Collection Name	Birds
Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/e49n-75xd
Parent Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/142r-0w94

Collection Name	Fishes
Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/22s5-q4hk
Parent Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/142r-0w94

Collection Name	Mammals
Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/cy7i-ptxq
Parent Collection Identifier	http://grbio.org/cool/142r-0w94

Specimen preservation methods	Deep frozen

Additional Metadata

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Alternative Identifiers	https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=nmnh_material_sample