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Sperm morphology of 264 songbird species

Citation

Omotoriogun T C, Albrecht T, Gohli J, Hořák D, Johannessen L E, Johnsen A, Kreisinger J, Marki P Z, Ottosson U, Rowe M, Sedláček O, Lifjeld J T (2020). Sperm morphology of 264 songbird species. Version 1.9. University of Oslo. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/rw4lcz accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-07-06.

Description

Sperm morphology for 125 Afrotropical and 139 Northern temperate species of songbirds, utilized in comparative analyses in the paper “Sperm size variation among Afrotropical songbirds as adaptations to the tropical environment” by Omotoriogun et al., 2020. The value in otherCatalogNumbers is an ID number for an internal Sperm Morhology Database and can be used to retrieve the original measurements. Note that in order to download the measurements themselves the source archive must be downloaded from the IPT https://ipt.gbif.no/archive.do?r=sperm-morphology-songbirds.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Includes samples mainly from Nigeria and Cameroon in Africa, northeastern Canada and Europe

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Taiwo C. Omotoriogun
originator
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
NO
email: crossbino@gmail.com
Tomáš Albrecht
originator
Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
CZ
email: albrecht@ivb.cz
Jostein Gohli
originator
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
NO
email: jostein.gohli@gmail.com
David Hořák
originator
Faculty of Science, Charles University
CZ
email: david.horak@natur.cuni.cz
Lars Erik Johannessen
originator
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
NO
email: l.e.johannessen@nhm.uio.no
Arild Johnsen
originator
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
NO
email: arild.johnsen@nhm.uio.no
Jakub Kreisinger
originator
Faculty of Science, Charles University
CZ
email: jakubkreisinger@seznam.cz
Petter Z. Marki
originator
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
NO
email: zoothera87@hotmail.com
Ulf Ottosson
originator
A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, University of Jos
NG
email: ulfottossonlux@gmail.com
Melissah Rowe
originator
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
NO
email: M.Rowe@nioo.knaw.nl
Ondřej Sedláček
originator
Faculty of Science, Charles University
CZ
email: zbrd@email.cz
Jan T. Lifjeld
originator
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
NO
email: j.t.lifjeld@nhm.uio.no
Lars Erik Johannessen
metadata author
NHM
NO
email: l.e.johannessen@nhm.uio.no
Rukaya Johaadien
user
email: r.s.johaadien@nhm.uio.no
Taiwo C. Omotoriogun
administrative point of contact
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
NO
email: crossbino@gmail.com
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