Our fifth selection on innovations that changed mammalogy actually is both a plea and an innovation. The plea is to train scientists to handle what they collect in the field with great care for the unknown future “other” scientists that follow. For this innovation, the plea is for using fixatives correctly in the field so that later laboratory-based histology and histochemical comparisons will be possible. Integral to this plea is the critically important need to obtain vouchers, particularly if tissue sample destruction is the norm. The true innovation considered here makes it possible to use field-fixed specimens in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies. TEM is a valuable, but currently underused, research tool in mammalogy.

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改变哺乳动物学的创新：透射电子显微镜 (TEM) 的场固定

我们关于改变哺乳动物学的创新的第五个选择实际上既是一种请求，也是一种创新。请求是训练科学家处理他们在该领域收集的东西，非常小心地为未知的未来“其他”科学家跟随。对于这项创新，请求是在现场正确使用固定剂，以便以后可以进行基于实验室的组织学和组织化学比较。这一请求不可或缺的是获得凭证的至关重要的需求，特别是在组织样本销毁是常态的情况下。这里考虑的真正创新使得在透射电子显微镜 (TEM) 研究中使用场固定样品成为可能。TEM 是哺乳动物学中一种有价值但目前未被充分利用的研究工具。