Occurrence

SANBI: DNA Banking(1987-2011)

Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 27 July 2020 South African National Biodiversity Institute
SANBI has been banking DNA samples for target groups (plants and herps). The size of these banks has grown considerably in the last few years to 4900 plant extracts and approximately 6000 herp (reptiles and amphibians) tissues. For sensitive information, contact resource provider.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 6,199 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Tolley K (2016): SANBI: DNA Banking(1987-2011). v1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=sanbi_dna&v=1.1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 0b2f8a72-cfec-4c00-9424-9ee0bd8bec72.  South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Krystal Tolley
Scientist
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Krystal Tolley
Scientist
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
0217998738

Who filled in the metadata:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Technician
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
0217998738

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Fhatani Ranwashe

Geographic Coverage

mostly South Africa

Bounding Coordinates South West [-35, -11], North East [11, 44]

Taxonomic Coverage

Animals

Phylum  Chordata

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1987-01-01 / 2011-01-01

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 0b2f8a72-cfec-4c00-9424-9ee0bd8bec72
http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=sanbi_dna