Duke Lemur Center BioBank Collection

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Description

The BioBank is a jointly-curated ancillary collection of tissues derived from the established living stocks collection (i.e., the animals comprising the historic and current DLC primate breeding colony). It is a vouchered primary data source for biological research that is available to the scientific community. The current BioBank consists of >25K frozen and fixed samples from over 1,400 individuals representing 37 species, most of which are strepsirrhines. The DLC BioBank includes many types of specimens (e.g., cadavers, blood, organ tissue, sperm plugs, urine, and feces) available to researchers at a modest fee. These samples are associated with animal records, many of them digital. Therefore, for example, data derived from these samples can be linked to life history. Specimens are banked opportunistically from the living colony during routine physical exams or other veterinary procedures. Tissues are also collected from animals at necropsy. They are preserved in a variety of ways suitable for DNA, RNA, histological, and anatomical analysis.The DLC is actively working to digitize and mobilize the data contained with the BioBank to GBIF and other data aggregators. Given the scope of this task, no time frame has been set for the completion of this process. If you are a qualified researcher interested in obtaining biological samples, please contact the Research Department at dlcbiosamples@duke.edu to discuss sample availability and to request the appropriate approval forms.

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Duke Lemur Center. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 13348187-3edc-490b-85e6-9245d6e7bdfb. Duke Lemur Center publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by VertNet.

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Contacts

Erin Ehmke

Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Director of Research

Duke Lemur Center

erin.ehmke@duke.edu

Christine Wall

Metadata Provider

Research Professor Emerita of Evolutionary Anthropology

Duke Lemur Center

christine.wall@duke.edu

Kate Neely

Metadata Provider

Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History

kate.neely@duke.edu

Amanda Mazza

Custodian Steward

Duke Lemur Center

27705

amanda.mazza@duke.edu

David Bloom

Programmer

VertNet

dbloom@vertnet.org

Geographic Coverage

All biobank samples are located at The Duke Lemur Center in Durham, NC.

Bounding Coordinates	South West [35.966, -78.972], North East [35.999, -78.933]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Order	Primates
Family	Cheirogaleidae, Galagidae, Indriidae, Lemuridae, Tarsiidae
Genus	Carlito, Cephalopachus, Cheirogaleus, Daubentonia, Eulemur, Galago, Hapalemur, Lemur, Loris, Microcebus, Mirza, Nycticebus, Otolemur, Perodicticus, Propithecus, Varecia

Collection Data

Collection Name	Duke Lemur Center BioBank

Specimen preservation methods	Deep frozen, Formalin, Other

Bibliographic Citations

Yapuncich GS. 2017. Body mass prediction from dental and postcranial measurements in primates and their nearest relatives. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Yapuncich GS, Kemp AD, Griffith DM, Gladman JT, Ehmke EE, Boyer DM. 2019. A digital collection of rare and endangered lemurs and other primates from the Duke Lemur Center. PloS one, 14(11), p.e0219411.

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Alternative Identifiers	13348187-3edc-490b-85e6-9245d6e7bdfb
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