Specimen collection is essential for modern science

Natural history museums are vital repositories of specimens, samples and data that inform about the natural world; this Formal Comment revisits a Perspective that advocated for the adoption of compassionate collection practices, querying whether it will ever be possible to completely do away with whole animal specimen collection.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2023-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002318PMID 37992027PMCID 10664955
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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