Where do the tissues come from?
What’s in the collection?
•Non-viable tissue storage
•Tissues from over 100,000 individuals
•Predominantly Australian & New Guinean vertebrates
•Representatives of most other non-Australian vertebrate families
•Selected invertebrate groups
•Selected plant groups
•Intensive within species sampling of many taxa
•Majority of tissues associated with voucher
•Biological surveys – SA state wide survey since 1984, CALM surveys
•Individual research projects
•‘Swaps’ with other collections
•Archiving of research institute based samples