Sine systemate chaos? A versatile tool for earthworm taxonomy: Non-destructive imaging of freshly fixed and museum specimens using micro-computed tomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Fernández, Rosa ^a   Kvist, Sebastian ^a   Lenihan, Jennifer ^a   Giribet, Gonzalo ^a   Ziegler, Alexander ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ziegler Biosolutions ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APORRECTODEA CALIGINOSA; APORRECTODEA TRAPEZOIDES; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER MODEL; DISSECTION; EARTHWORM; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAINING; TAXONOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION CENTER; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; OLIGOCHAETA; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MUSEUMS; OLIGOCHAETA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAINING AND LABELING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84901362826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096617     Document Type: Article

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