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Alex Smith - [16] Carmen Pozo de la Tijera - [2] Suresh Naik - [115] CBG Project Management Team - [68] John James Wilson - [19] Mehrdad Hajibabaei - [43] Zhaofu Yang - [6] CBG Collections Unit - [3] Kenneth H Stead - [1] Sujeevan Ratnasingham - [1] Yves Basset - [2] Matthias Nuss - [5] Axel Hausmann - [2] Karen W Wright - [1]
CBG Collections Unit - [358] Mehrdad Hajibabaei - [17] Yves Basset - [1] Catherine M Hulshof - [3] Mailyn Gonzalez - [6] Axel Hausmann - [1] Jean-Francois Landry - [8] CBG Project Management Team - [5] Patrick Strutzenberger - [1] Robin M. Floyd - [4] Ramya Manjunath - [2]
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes - [15]
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics - [435]
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur - [2]
Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos Alexander von Humboldt - [6]
Mined from GenBank, NCBI - [1]
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Bernardino Rivadavia - [3]
Museo de Entomologia y Biodiversidad Tropical, Puerto Rico - [2]
Research Collection of D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs - [21]
SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen - [4]
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Museum of Zoology - [4]
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - [3]
Texas A&M University, College Station - [1]
University of Pennsylvania - [141]
University of Vermont, George D. Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory - [1]
University of Vienna, Dept of Botany and Biodiversity Research - [1]
Sequencing Centers:
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics - [260] University of Vienna, Dept of Botany and Biodiversity Research - [1]
Photography:
CBG Photography Group - [10] CBG Robotic Imager - [19] CBG Robotic Rig - [294] Daniel H. Janzen - [258] Eugenie Phillips - [2] F. Perez - [2] Gabriel Aguado Rodríguez - [1] Jay Cossey - [1] Kristen Mancuso - [2] Lisa Bartels - [8] MY Chen - [1] Mark J. Dreiling - [1] Miguel Osorio - [2] Natalia Aristizábal - [1] Natalia Aristizabal - [2] Nicole Martinez - [1] Patrick Strutzenberger - [1] Sara Delgado - [3] Sarah Maroney - [1] Theo Leger - [1] Zhaofu Yang - [6] photo work group Dr. Axel Hausmann - [2]
Collectors:
A. C. Sheppard - [1] A. Picado - [2] A. Segerer - [1] A. Valdivia - [4] A.Azofeifa A - [4] Ann Hendrickson - [7] Aura Alonso-Rodriguez - [3] B. Landry - [12] B.Landry - [1] BioBus 2011 - [2] Bobadilla - [3] D.Janzen - [260] Diego Inclan - [1] E.G. Riley - [1] Emigdio May - [2] F.Quesada&H.Cambronero - [1] F.Quesada&R.Franco - [23] F.Quesada&S.Rios - [5] Frankenbach - [2] G. Blagoev - [4] G.Blanco - [39] G.Pereira & H.Ramirez - [1] G.Pereira & S.Rios - [7] Gonzalez - [2] Grupo Biomonitores - [3] Grupo biomonitores - [3] H. Sulak & O. Vasha - [1] H.Cambronero&F.Quesada - [8] H.Cambronero&R.Franco - [16] H.Cambronero&S.Rios - [11] H.Lambert - [1] Hector Barrios - [1] Henri Lambert - [1] Holland & Chillcott - [1] I.Chacon - [52] Isidro Chacon - [4] K. Pickthorn & J. deWaard - [1] K.H.Stead - [1] Lopez - [1] M. Nuss - [4] M.Obando - [1] M.Zuniga Siles - [22] Manuel Pereira - [1] Manuel Rios - [6] Mariano Pereira - [2] Mark Dreiling - [3] Michelle D`Souza - [2] Munroe - [1] Osorio - [2] Pablo Tubaro - [3] Paul Hebert - [2] Perez - [3] Peter Kevan - [1] R. Zuniga - [88] R.Franco & H. Cambronero - [2] R.Franco & H.Cambronero - [4] R.Franco&H.Cambronero - [9] R.Franco&S.Rios - [1] Rafael Ojeda Flores - [3] Ramirez - [1] S.Rios - [6] S.Rios & G.Pereira - [5] S.Rios & H.Cambronero - [3] S.Rios & H.Ramirez - [4] S.Rios & R.Franco - [2] S.Rios& R.Franco - [1] S.Rios&F.Quesada - [2] S.Rios&G.Pereira - [8] S.Rios&H.Cambronero - [9] S.Rios&H.Ramirez - [2] S.Rios&R.Franco - [4] Sandra Garces-Carrera - [108] Vanessa Kadosoe - [36] W.Hallwachs - [260] Y.F.Hsu - [1] Yves Basset - [1] gusaneros - [7]
Specimen Identification:
Allison Brown - [12] Angela Telfer - [174] Aura Alonso-Rodriguez - [3] Axel Hausmann - [3] Bernard Landry - [2] Daniel H. Janzen - [239] Estela Dominguez - [2] Eugene G. Munroe - [3] J. Donald Lafontaine - [1] Jean-Francois Landry - [8] Kate Perez - [37] Matthias Nuss - [4] Mikko Pentinsaari - [110] Natalia A Aristizabal - [2] Paul Hebert - [1] Renee Miskie - [29] Richard Mally - [1] Sara Delgado - [3] Yacksecari Lopez - [1] Yves Basset - [2]