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271 datasets found

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3D Cetacean Scanning

3D scans of ten Cetacean skulls collected between 1873 and 2007. The dataset contains both baleen and toothed whales including Physeter macrocephalus (a sperm whale) the largest...
Richard C Sabin; Kaitlyn Burton; Natalie Cooper; Anjali Goswami Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility

The data required to run the analyses in Al Sabouni et al "Reproducibility of species recognition in modern planktonic foraminifera and its implications for measures of...
Isabel Fenton Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Insect Pollinators Archive

An up to date dataset of the Insect Pollinators Initiative, A multi-institution initiative with the NHM, BBSRC and The University of Edinburgh. The archive is held at the...
Graham N Stone; Alfried Vogler; Adam Vanbergen; Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds Research Creative Commons Attribution

Xenophyophores

Xenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna that accumulate large masses of waste material (‘stercomare’) within their agglutinated...
Andrew Gooday; Dan Sykes; Adrian Glover Collections License not specified

Fenton et al Reproducibility

The data required to run the analyses in Fenton et al "Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera".
Isabel Fenton Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Maddock_montanus

Hypogeophis DNA alignments
Simon Maddock; Mark Wilkinson; David J Gower Research License not specified

Morelloid clade of Solanum in Brazil

Dataset of specimen and localities of Brazilian species of the Morelloid clade of Solanum (black nightshades)
Sandra Knapp Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Conodont collection database

The database provides information on discrete sub-collections within the conodont collection housed at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes generic, specific and...
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Jins_Uropeltidae

Uropeltidae mtDNA alignments and morphological data
V J Jins; F L Sampaio; David J Gower Research License not specified

Eggplant wild relative plastome phylogeny

The data set comprises the original data files and scripts used to generate analyses in the publication Aubriot X, Knapp S, Syfert MM, Poczai P, Buerki S (2018) Shedding new...
Xavier Aubriot Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Moth Ultraviolet Reflectance Survey

The moth ultraviolet (UV) reflectance survey dataset is constituted of images showing the portion above 360 nm of the UVA reflection of specimens belonging to 176 moth species....
Elisa Cane; Jonathan Laventhol; Sophie Ledger Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes

Landmark data from odontocete skulls, plus associated metadata, used in Page CE, Cooper N. (2017) Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls. PeerJ 5:e4090...
Charlotte E Page; Natalie Cooper Research Creative Commons Attribution

Site-level dataset used in Phillips et al. (2017) The effect of fragment area...

Habitat fragmentation accompanies habitat loss, and drives additional biodiversity change; but few global biodiversity models explicitly analyse the effects of both...
Helen Phillips; John M Halley; J Nicolas Urbina-Cardona; Andy Purvis Research Creative Commons Attribution

Former Aberystwyth microfossil collection

A catalogue of information about discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, now housed the Natural History Museum. The...
Natural History Museum Collections License not specified

NHM Interactions Bank

A combined ecological interactions dataset from various projects at the Natural History Museum, London. The data is aggregated from a number of individual projects hosted in the...
Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Supplementary data remipede Toxins paper

These data are the supplementary data accompanying a paper submitted to the journal Toxins titled Venomics of remipede crustaceans reveals novel peptide diversity and...
Ronald Jenner Research License not specified

American Phlebotominae types at the NHM

Details for the collection of American type specimens (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) held at The Natural History Museum, London.
Zoë Hughes; Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro Collections License not specified

Elaeagnifolium clade (Solanum)

Data set of specimens used in the publication: Knapp, S., E. Sagona, A.K.Z. Carbonell and F. Chiarini (2017) A revision of the Solanum elaeagnifolium clade (Elaeagnifolium...
Sandra Knapp Research ODC-BY-1.0

BIOPEARL

DarwinCore Archive of species occurrence data to support the publication: Neal L, Linse K, Brasier MJ, Sherlock E, Glover AG (2017). Comparative marine biodiversity and depth...
Adrian Glover; Lenka Neal Research License not specified

Palaeospondylus

Data from the paper "Questioning hagfish affinities of the enigmatic Devonian vertebrate Palaeospondylus "
Zerina Johanson Research CC-BY-SA-4.0

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