Insect morphology in the age of phylogenomics: Innovative techniques and its future role in systematics

Entomological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-24

  Friedrich, Frank ^a   Matsumura, Yoko ^b   Pohl, Hans ^b   Bai, Ming ^b,c   Hörnschemeyer, Thomas ^d   Beutel, Rolf G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Dissection; Electron microscopy; Focus stacking of digital images; Geometric morphometrics; Histology; Micro computed tomography

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84891664562     PISSN: 13438786     EISSN: 14798298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ens.12053     Document Type: Review

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