Gerry,

Tissues can come from live or dead specimens. For dead specimens, certain types of preservation can damage the DNA, so a researcher has to be aware of how a particular specimen was preserved. As to why an entire specimen isn't sent to the researcher, it's generally because the speciment belongs to a different institution than the interested researcher. For example, a specimen might belong to the University of Texas - Arlington, while the interested researcher is working at the University of Las Vegas. Additionally, only a small tissue sample is needed for DNA analysis.

Now, your question regarding who might have live specimens of the "Jim Kane" animals... I honestly don't know. Joe would probably have better knowledge of that. Joe????
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• Can anyone name this milk? - gerryg, Mon Oct 10 17:20:02 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - Joe Forks, Tue Oct 11 07:49:30 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - SunHerp, Tue Oct 11 09:12:56 2011
• On tissue samples - gerryg, Wed Oct 12 04:53:47 2011
• RE: On tissue samples - SunHerp, Thu Oct 13 10:44:01 2011
• RE: On tissue samples - gerryg, Thu Oct 13 16:39:54 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - SunHerp, Tue Oct 11 09:05:55 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - Joe Forks, Tue Oct 11 09:18:50 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - SunHerp, Tue Oct 11 09:30:30 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - Joe Forks, Tue Oct 11 09:38:06 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - SunHerp, Tue Oct 11 09:44:22 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - gerryg, Tue Oct 11 17:19:33 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - SunHerp, Tue Oct 11 18:10:02 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - DMong, Thu Oct 13 14:31:38 2011
• and actually.......... - DMong, Thu Oct 13 14:42:04 2011
• RE: Can anyone name this milk? - gerryg, Thu Oct 13 16:42:57 2011
• sure thing Gerry! - DMong, Thu Oct 13 20:24:24 2011
• Thanks to all - gerryg, Thu Oct 13 16:57:54 2011
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• RE: Thanks to all - gerryg, Fri Oct 14 15:50:56 2011
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