A practical and safe alternative method for skeletal cleaning for museum specimens using superworms (Zophobas morio)

• Fatemeh Rastekar,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

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• Niloofar Alaei Kakhki,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biodiversity Monitoring, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Mansour Aliabadian,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, Research Department of Zoological Innovations, Institute of Applied Zoology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

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• Morteza Monfared

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: mortezamonfared2023@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1558-1605

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