Micro-computed tomography: Introducingnewdimensions to taxonomy

ZooKeys

Volumn 263, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-45

  Faulwetter, Sarah ^a,b   Vasileiadou, Aikaterini ^b,c   Kouratoras, Michail ^b   Dailianis, Thanos ^b   Arvanitidis, Christos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D; Cybertaxonomy; Cybertypes; Interactive PDF; Micro computed tomography; Polychaetes; Systematics; Taxonomy; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84873465745     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.263.4261     Document Type: Article

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