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Wickramasinghe_braminusAligned DNA sequence data
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Natural History Museum | Research | |
Beetle Drawer ScansDrawer scans of beetles from the Natural History Museums (NHM) collections. These scans are a mix of work produced by volunteers at the NHM as part of the VFactor program as...
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Josh Humphries | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Lincolnshire Plants: Past and FutureLincolnshire Plants: Past and Future (popularly known as ‘LoveLincsPlants’) is a National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) supported project in collaboration with the Lincolnshire...
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Kath Castillo; Fred Rumsey; Debra Turner | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Clifford HerbariumThe herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant.
The Herbarium includes plants that were newly cultivated...
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Charles E Jarvis | Collections | License not specified |
The NHM Fossil Lithistida CollectionThe Fossil Lithistida Collection at the NHM contains 5088 hand specimens and 265 thin sections mainly from the British Isles, Germany and France. This is a comprehensive dataset...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Freshwater Insects UK vs the World BlogAs part of their Kickstart Placement with the Digitisation Team, Joseph Dean authored a blog entitled UK vs The World examining the difference in data on labels in the...
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Jennifer Pullar; Joseph Deane | Public Engagement | Creative Commons CCZero |
Coral Reefs of Discovery Bay Jamaica in 1969Video including underwater footage of the reefs around Discovery Bay Jamaica made by Lynton Land in 1969 and 1970
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Lynton Land | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Arabic and Persian plant names in the Codex VindobonensisThe Codex Vindobonensis Med. GR. 1 Der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek (sometimes referred to as the Juliana Anicia codex and hereafter referred to as ‘The Codex’) is a...
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Hanouf Al-Alawi; John Hunnex | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals.Data from paper: Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals. link to paper.
Natalie Cooper, Alexander L. Bond, Joshua L. Davis, Roberto Portela Miguez,...
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Natalie Cooper; Alexander Bond; Joshua L Davis; Roberto Portela Miguez et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Images for the evaluation of automatic image segmentation algorithmsA collection of 804 jpeg images, each of one or more objects from the Natural History Museum's collections. All images are 4,096 pixels in width. These images can be used to...
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Lawrence Hudson; Vladimir Blagoderov; Blanca Huertas; Laurence Livermore et al. | Collections | CC-BY-4.0 |
iCollectionsThe iCollections dataset comprises the records of all the British and Irish butterfly specimens in the entomological collections of the Natural History Museum, London....
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Gordon L J Paterson; Sara Albuquerque; Vladimir Blagoderov; Stephen J Brooks et al. | Collections | CC0-1.0 |
NHM Devonian Stromatoporoidea Thin Section CollectionThis collection includes 827 thin sections belonging to 54 worldwide taxa. Many of these thin section were prepared by H. Alleyne Nicholson.
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Jiayuan Huang | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Ecology drives patterns of spectral transmission in the ocular lenses of frog...
The spectral characteristics of vertebrate ocular lenses affect the image of the world that is projected onto the retina, and thus help shape diverse visual capabilities. Here,...
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Kate N Thomas; David J Gower; Jeffrey Streicher; Rayna C Bell et al. | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Butler_MambawakalePronunciation of Mambawakale ruhuhu gen. et sp. nov. by John Lyakurwa (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
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Natural History Museum | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Lepidosaur bite-force dataData from paper: Clade-wide variation in bite-force performance is determined primarily by size not ecology. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2493
Justin E Isip, Marc EH Jones...
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Justin E Isip; Marc EH Jones; Natalie Cooper | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
BRITISH SILURIAN STROMATOPOROID TAXAFifteen 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...
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Stephen Kershaw; Anne-Christine da Silva; Consuelo Sendino | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Diversity and evolution of amphibian pupil shapesPupil constriction has important functional consequences for animal vision, yet the evolutionary mechanisms underlying diverse pupil sizes and shapes are poorly understood. We...
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Kate N Thomas; Caitlyn Rich; Rachel Quock; Jeffrey Streicher et al. | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
References that cite the John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology (JWIP)This document is a compilation of publications that cite the use of the John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology which is based in Micropalaeontology, Earth Sciences.
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Stephen Stukins | Collections | License not specified |
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on trop...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...
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J Labisko; Nancy Bunbury; Richard Griffiths; Jim Groombridge et al. | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Phylogeny of terraranan frogs based on 2,665 loci and impacts of missing data...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...
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Lucas Barrientos; Jeffrey Streicher; Elizabeth Miller; Marcio Pie; John Wiens; Andrew Crawford | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |