Virtual dissection using phase-contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography: Reducing the gap between fossils and extant species

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 573-580

  Perreau, Michel ^a   Tafforeau, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBER; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; INSECT; NEW SPECIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; LEIODIDAE;

EID: 79959707673     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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