Coral histopathological slides and associated documentation from samples received on 2008-12-02 from Shawn McLaughlin for the Coral Virtual Microscopy project of NOAA (NCEI Accession 0189591)

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This dataset contains scanned images of coral histological slides that were scanned into pyramidal tiled TIFF images (Aperio SVS file format). The slides have been collected by Shawn McLaughlin and have been provided to NOAA for scanning. The dataset includes genus and species.

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title	Coral histopathological slides and associated documentation from samples received on 2008-12-02 from Shawn McLaughlin for the Coral Virtual Microscopy project of NOAA (NCEI Accession 0189591)

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