Title | San Diego Zoo, Frozen Zoo |
Publication Type | Website |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Keywords | cell cultures, centralized repository, frozen tissue collection, genetic resources, herpetology, ichthyology, mammalogy, ornithology |
Abstract | The carefully collected and maintained frozen tissues and cell cultures that have been banked in the Frozen Zoo® over the last thirty-seven years comprise a unique resource contributing to the description and classification of vertebrate diversity. Frozen Zoo® now contains frozen cell cultures of 9,000 individual birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and fish. |
URL | http://www.sandiegozooglobal.org/what_we_do/banking_genetic_resources/ |