Museum fish collections possess a wealth of anatomical and morphological information which might be important for documenting and understanding biodiversity. Obtaining entry to specimens for analysis, nevertheless, is just not all the time sensible and ceaselessly conflicts with the want to keep the bodily integrity of specimens and the assortment as an entire.
Non-invasive three-dimensional (3D) digital imaging due to this fact serves a essential function in facilitating the digitization of these specimens for anatomical and morphological evaluation in addition to facilitating an environment friendly technique for on-line storage and sharing of this imaging information.
Here we describe the growth of the Digital Fish Library (DFL, https://www.digitalfishlibrary.org), an internet digital archive of high-resolution, high-contrast, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the mushy tissue anatomy of an array of fishes preserved in the Marine Vertebrate Collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
We have imaged and uploaded MRI information for over 300 marine and freshwater species, developed an information archival and retrieval system with a web-based picture evaluation and visualization instrument, and built-in these into the public DFL web site to disseminate information and related metadata freely over the net.
The Digital Fish Library: using MRI to digitize, database, and document the morphological diversity of fish.
We present that MRI is a speedy and highly effective technique for precisely depicting the in-situ soft-tissue anatomy of preserved fishes in adequate element for large-scale comparative digital morphology. However these 3D volumetric information require a complicated computational and archival infrastructure so as to be broadly accessible to researchers and educators.
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Description: The Mouse Direct PCR Kit provides a fast preparation and PCR amplIFication that is specIFically designed for mouse genotyping. Buffer L and Protease Plus rapidly digests mouse tissue to release intact genomic DNA that can be used directly as the template for PCR amplIFication.
Description: The Mouse Direct PCR Kit provides a fast preparation and PCR amplIFication that is specIFically designed for mouse genotyping. Buffer L and Protease Plus rapidly digests mouse tissue to release intact genomic DNA that can be used directly as the template for PCR amplIFication.
Description: The Mouse Direct PCR Kit provides a fast preparation and PCR amplIFication that is specIFically designed for mouse genotyping. Buffer L and Protease Plus rapidly digests mouse tissue to release intact genomic DNA that can be used directly as the template for PCR amplIFication.