Rescuing Perishable Neuroanatomical Information from a Threatened Biodiversity Hotspot: Remote Field Methods for Brain Tissue Preservation Validated by Cytoarchitectonic Analysis, Immunohistochemistry, and X-Ray Microcomputed Tomography

• Daniel F. Hughes ,

  * E-mail: amkhan2@utep.edu (AMK); dfhughes@miners.utep.edu (DFH)

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, UTEP Biodiversity Collections, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, Doctoral Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

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• Ellen M. Walker,

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, Doctoral Program in Environmental Pathobiology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

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• Paul M. Gignac,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Anais Martinez,

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, Doctoral Program in Environmental Pathobiology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

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• Kenichiro Negishi,

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, Masters Program in Biology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

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• Carl S. Lieb,

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, UTEP Biodiversity Collections, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

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• Eli Greenbaum,

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, UTEP Biodiversity Collections, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

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• Arshad M. Khan

  * E-mail: amkhan2@utep.edu (AMK); dfhughes@miners.utep.edu (DFH)

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America, Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0254-3546

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