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Explore and download the Museum’s research and collections data.

Datasets

188 datasets found

DatasetAuthorTypeLicence

Collection specimens

Specimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection
  • dwc
Natural History Museum Collections CC0-1.0

Wallace and Banks drawers

Drawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
  • CSV
Sue Ryder Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Sampaio_Rhinophis

mtDNA alignments and p-distances
  • fasta
  • XLS
F L Sampaio; S Narayanan; V P Cyriac; G Venu; David J Gower Research Creative Commons Attribution

Data from Barrientos et al. - Terraranan UCEs - Systematics and Biodiversity

Terraranae is a large clade of New World direct-developing frogs that includes 3–5 families and >1,100 described species (~15% of all named frog species). The relationships...
  • PHYLIP
  • ZIP
  • TRE
Lucas Barrientos; Jeffrey Streicher; Elizabeth Miller; Marcio Pie; John Wiens; Andrew Crawford Research Creative Commons Attribution

Data from Labisko et al. - Sooglossus adaptation

How will organisms cope when forced into warmer-than-preferred thermal environments? This is a key question facing our ability to monitor and manage biota as average annual...
  • TRE
J Labisko; Nancy Bunbury; Richard Griffiths; Jim Groombridge et al. Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summarie...

Using the PREDICTS database of local biodiversity measures at thousands of sites around the world, we statistically modelled how total abundance of organisms and compositional...
  • CSV
Helen Phillips; Adriana De Palma; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Samantha L L Hill; Luca Borger; Andy Purvis Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Unexpected trans-Tasman species diversity of the bryozoan family Horneridae (...

TBC
  • nexus
Andrea Waeschenbach Research

ALICE test images

Images used to test different software pipelines for label extraction.
Benjamin Price; Steen Dupont; Louise Allan; Vladimir Blagoderov et al. Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

"Join the dots" collections assessment exercise

The files submitted here form the backbone to a 2018 collections assessment exercise at the Natural History Museum and support a methodology paper submitted to Museum Management...
  • DOCX
  • PDF
  • TXT
Giles Miller Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Disporella guada sp. nov., an erect rectangulate cyclostome (Bryozoa, Stenola...

The taxonomy of cyclostome bryozoans is founded on characters of the calcitic skeleton, but molecular sequence data has increasingly shown that established higher taxa are not...
  • nexus
Natural History Museum Research License not specified

Giri_Smithophis

Phylogenetic datasets
  • .nex
Varad B Giri; David J Gower; Abhijit Das; Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga et al. Research License not specified

Das_Hebius_pealii

DNA sequence alignments
Abhijit Das; David J Gower; Veerappan Deepak Research Creative Commons Attribution

Deepak_Xylophis_mosaicus

DNA sequence alignment
  • TXT
Veerappan Deepak Research Creative Commons Attribution

Deepak_Xylophis

Alignments of DNA sequence data used in phylogenetic analysis
  • TXT
Veerappan Deepak; Sara Ruane; David J Gower Research License not specified

Deepak_Blythia_Herpetoreas

DNA sequence alignments
  • TXT
Veerappan Deepak Research Creative Commons Attribution

NATRICINE

Data from the NATRICINE project led by V.Deepak (veerappandeepak@gmail.com), funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. This data has been used in several papers: REFERENCE....
  • CSV
Veerappan Deepak; Natalie Cooper; David J Gower Research Creative Commons Attribution

Lepidosaur bite-force data

Data from paper: Comparative analyses of bite-force among lepidosaurs. DOI to be added Justin E Isip, Marc EH Jones and Natalie Cooper. 2021. Comparative analyses of bite-force...
  • CSV
  • NEX
Justin E Isip; Marc EH Jones; Natalie Cooper Research Creative Commons Attribution

New species of Athenaea from Brazil

Specimens use in the description of two new species of Athenaea (Solanaceae) Rodrigues IMC, Knapp S, Stehmann JR (2021) Two new species of Athenaea Sendtn. (Solanaceae) from the...
  • CSV
Sandra Knapp Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Unprecedented frequency of mitochondrial introns in colonial bilaterians

TBC
  • nexus
Helen L Jenkins; Rachael Graham; Andrea Hall; Joanne S Porter et al. Research

BRITISH SILURIAN STROMATOPOROID TAXA

Fifteen taxa were found in a comprehensive study of British Silurian stromatoporoids using new and museum samples. The approach towards systematics adopted here is to accept...
  • PDF
Stephen Kershaw; Consuelo Sendino; Anne-Christine da Silva Research Creative Commons Attribution

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