Does anyone have tissue samples of five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus) from Wisconsin, Minnesota or Michigan?

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I am doing a population genetics study on a disjunct population five-lined skinks in MI and was wondering if tissue samples from elsewhere in the region are stored somewhere.

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