The curious case of the Dana platypus and what it can teach us about how lead shotgun pellets behave in fluid preserved museum specimens and may limit their scientific value

• Henrik Lauridsen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: henrik@clin.au.dk

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8833-4456

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• Daniel Klingberg Johansson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Christina Carøe Ejlskov Pedersen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Kasper Hansen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Michiel Krols,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TESCAN XRE, Ghent, Belgium

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• Kristian Murphy Gregersen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Conservation, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3318-1197

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• Julie Nogel Jæger,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Conservation, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Catherine Jane Alexandra Williams,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4839-6134

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• Ditte-Mari Sandgreen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Givskud Zoo-Zootopia, Give, Denmark

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• Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Mads Frost Bertelsen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Zoo and Wild Animal Health, Copenhagen Zoo, Frederiksberg, Denmark, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Peter Rask Møller

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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