Diaphanization of Common mouse - Mus musculus
Biological preparation
The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.
You can see the bones through the flesh!
Diaphanization of a Common mouse skeketon: Mus musculus
The aim of diaphanization is to make the skeleton transparent so that it can be observed.
The tissues are made transparent by a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.
You can see the bones through the flesh!
This is mainly used for animals that are too small to be prepared for osteology in the conventional way, or to study ossification sequences, for example.
The jar does not contain formalin, because the specimens are fixed before they are prepared.
They are then placed in these flasks filled with pure glycerine and thymol crystals, whose function is to preserve the tissues and combat mould.
The animals are not killed to end up in these jars; they are often foetuses or stillborn animals, etc.
Bottle height: 8.5cm Diameter: 4cm
All specimens are different
Museum jar - Wet specimen
Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum
Brown lace sea fan on a base
Brown Whip Coral
Entomological box
Hyles nicaea Butterfly - Mediterranean hawk-moth
Collected in Nice in 1973
Bat suspended under a globe
Species: Cynopterus sphinx
Butterfly bell Size M
Species: Graphium weiskei butterflies from Indonesia (Breeding)
Half skeleton of a bat suspended under a globe
Species: Cynopterus brachyotis
All bats are different
Entomological box
Species: Idea leuconoe - Paper kite butterfly
Scarab under a globe: Goliathus goliatus female
4-leaf clover - Four-leaf clover
Cristal de Trèfle - M size
Botanical inclusion of Trifolia repens
Grown in France
Dragon Stone
Septaria egg of Madagascar
Flight of butterflies: perisama albipennis
Diaphanization of Common mouse - Mus musculus
Biological preparation
The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.
You can see the bones through the flesh!
