Sentences with phrase «to preserve specimens»

, and then I will preserve the specimen for the museum shelf.

Their minimally invasive protocol preserves the specimen so additional information can be collected from the specimen in the future.

While preserved specimens appeared to be completely devoid of eyes, she noticed in photographs a pair of reflective spots on the back of the shrimp.

The parasite is certainly a relatively recent arrival: In the study, Arbetman and her team looked at preserved specimens of the native bee as well as B. ruderatus, also called the carder bumblebee.

The plastination process preserves the specimens in incredible detail — muscles are discernible down to their individual fibers — yet with enough similarity to plastic that visitors are not afraid to peer closely and at length.

While formalin helps preserve the specimen making it rigid and durable, it poses a challenge to extracting and sequencing DNA.

An entire skull belonging to an extinct hominin that lived 1.8 million years ago has been found in Georgia — the earliest completely preserved specimen ever found and confirmation that the species it belonged to, Homo erectus was far more variable in appearance than originally thought.

oVert aims to find fluid - preserved specimens with innards intact, which is more common for reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

In addition to his wax «sculpture,» Ruysch also preserved specimens in his secret embalming fluid: liquor balsamicum.

A new paper published in latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology shows that several of these Jurassic sites are linked together by shared species and can be recognized as representing a single fossil fauna and flora, containing superbly preserved specimens of a diverse group of amphibian, mammal, and reptile species.

Scientists who sequence ancient or preserved specimens seem to favor the Illumina next - generation platform to perform the sequencing itself, though Thermo Fisher Scientific's IonTorrent offers similar capabilities.

(An analysis of museum - preserved specimens hints that G. bonplandi eats small crustaceans and juvenile squid, possibly even those of its own species.)

Glacial archaeologists scramble to save long - preserved specimens thawing out of vanishing ice before they are lost forever

Scientists have discovered some of the best preserved specimens of the world's first trees in a remote region of China.

As part of a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, scientists at the Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich have prepared and studied over a hundred well - preserved specimens over the last three years.

Each exquisitely preserved specimen has the telltale traits of a modern bird: fan - shaped tail feathers, highly fused bones at the ends of the wings, and the U-shaped wishbone familiar to anyone who has carved a roast chicken.

Reception to this idea has been mixed, but in this fast - moving field, the letter - writers argue it would help preserve specimens while leveling the playing field for everyone studying ancient genomics to do their research.

While racing up and down the Bahamas coastline, trying to save lives or at least preserve specimens for autopsy, he struggled to comprehend what could have caused the whales such trauma.

Through a delicate system of tiny stitches she creates intricate and complex openwork compositions that are then carefully pinned in shadowboxes, just like preserved specimens.

When he first saw an exceptionally well - preserved specimen of Psittacosaurus in Germany in 2009, which included multiple areas of dark pigment, Vinther says his reaction was: «Holy cow, this thing has beautiful color patterns.»

In addition to our living collections, we have thousands of preserved specimens — from rare extinct species to common plants and animals.

The collection does not include any preserved specimens wet, plasticized or otherwise.

Scientists are studying it now in the research lab of New Zealand's national museum in Wellington where it will likely end up as a preserved specimen.

After analyzing 154 living and preserved specimens, the researchers described the reptile's characteristics July 24 in Zookeys.

The study «fills a gap in the fossil record with an extremely well - preserved specimen» and may provide valuable clues about a species that has been «virtually ignored by zoologists,» adds Jason Dunlop, curator for arachnids at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt - Universität in Berlin, Germany.

Restoring Earth The Field Museum, Chicago This new permanent exhibit highlights the adventurous side of environmental science as documented in field notebooks; preserved specimens of far - flung species, such as a green birdwing butterfly, right; and firsthand accounts from the museum's conservation researchers.

The evolution of feather color, structure, and organization is gleaned from amber - preserved specimens.

Three well - preserved specimens of Sinosauropteryx — a turkey - sized, meat - eating dino that lived in China about 130 million years ago — suggest the animal had a dark stripe around its eyes, researchers report today in Current Biology.

These preserved specimens of snakes, lizards, frogs, fish and other animals can last up to 500 years when processed in a chemical called formalin.

The carder bee first arrived in South America in the 1980s, but researchers could not detect the parasite's DNA in the preserved specimens.

The problem with traditional methods of collecting and preserving specimens isn't just that they're slow, Fisher says, but that they often make the results inaccessible to almost everyone.

Preserved specimen of the endemic Mauritius Blue Pigeon, collected in 1826, on display at the Mauritius Natural History Museum, Port Louis, Mauritius.

This mise - en - scene is pure wunderkammer — so fixated on cramming every inch of the frame with knickknacks, piles of papers, obsolete technologies (production designer Maria Djurkovic must've been given one hell of a typewriter budget), and accumulated dust that the characters themselves begin to resemble rare, preserved specimens.

My school has a curation cart that is used to preserve specimens.

The alcohol will kill and preserve the specimen.

Her otherwise unprepossessing subjects assume the status of preserved specimens, like flies in amber or leaves pressed between sheets of wax paper.

• Collecting and testing ocean samples, and preserving specimen and samples of unknown species.