Details for Australian Biological Tissue Collection
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| Collection data |
| Name | Australian Biological Tissue Collection |
| Alternative name | ABTC |
| Description | The Australian Biological Tissue Collection (ABTC) houses over 130,000 tissue samples. The collection encompasses most of the terrestrial vertebrate groups from Australasia and a broad representation of major fish and invertebrate groups from Australia and surrounding regions |
| Description for specialists | The Australian Biological Tissue Collection (ABTC) houses over 130,000 tissue and DNA samples, most frozen at -80C, the remainder preserved in ethanol or RNALater. The collection encompasses most of the terrestrial vertebrate groups from Australasia and a broad representation of major fish and invertebrate groups from Australia and surrounding regions. |
| Cite as | |
| Provenance | mostly Australasia, with minor representation from other global bio-regions |
| Notes | |
| Primary grouping principle | Taxonomic |
| Primary purpose | Research |
| Part of collection | |
| Related collection(s) | |
| Known to contain types | Includes types |
| Rights |
| Rights | not available at this time |
| Access rights | Access to material from the collection is managed through a grant policy (available at http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/evolutionarybiologyunit/collections). A fee is charged for "grants" on an individually negotiated basis. The purpose of the fee is to cover the time spent retrieving tissue samples and some component of the infrastructure costs of maintaining the collection (freezer maintenance and replacements). The fee does not make a charge for the value of the material, as this would contravene State and Federal laws prohibiting commercial trade in wildlife species. The fee does not seek to recover any of the costs incurred in collection of the material. |
| Usage restrictions | not available at this time |
| McGinley conservation statuses |
| Level 8 |
Physical curation complete, individual specimen label data captured. |
| Date |
01-10-2012 (dd-mm-yyyy) |
| Development status |
| Active growth |
| Formation periods |
| Not entered |
| Collection extents |
| 130000 tissues or extracts |
| Kingdom coverage |
| Animalia, Plantae |
| Taxon coverage |
| Metazoa, Plantae |
| Living time periods |
| Not entered |
| Specimen preservation methods |
| Not selected |
| Item level access |
| No sources entered |
| Related material |
| Not entered |
