Species descriptions reach a higher level.
Post 39544 - 31.07.2016 12:25:05
Species descriptions reach a higher level.
A few days ago Sarnat, Fischer and Economo published two papers in PloS One. They are good revisions of two species groups of Pheidole with determination keys and good descriptions of (new) species BUT.... The higher level is in the supporting files. It contains 3D reconstructions and movies of all the described castes of all the species. Articles and supporting files are free to download!
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0158544
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0156709
Post 39547 - 31.07.2016 17:52:27
Hello Marc,
I like this microtomography-stuff too and i am visually pleased with this 3D imaging models (volumetric surface model). Also they have gone quite creative with the naming. 
http://arilab.unit.oist.jp/1563/new-ant-species-in-3d/
i can not resist to add this video from sciencemag.org
Micro-CT taxonomy papers is another great invention from the Econo Lab OIST ( those are the guys who gave us http://antmaps.org/ )
check http://arilab.unit.oist.jp/people/ for the authors Georg Fischer, Eli Sarnat and Evan P. Economo himself
thank you for sharing and have a nice sunday
~alexander