Application of magnetic resonance imaging in zoology

A Ziegler, M Kunth, S Mueller, C Bock, R Pohmann… - Zoomorphology, 2011 - Springer
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive imaging technique that today
constitutes one of the main pillars of preclinical and clinical imaging. MRI's capacity to depict …

Invertebrate preparations and their contribution to neurobiology in the second half of the 20th century

F Clarac, E Pearlstein - Brain research reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
This review summarizes the contribution to neurobiology achieved through the use of
invertebrate preparations in the second half of the 20th century. This fascinating period was …

Elusive ditrysian phylogeny: an account of combining systematized morphology with molecular data (Lepidoptera)

M Heikkilä, M Mutanen, N Wahlberg, P Sihvonen… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2015 - Springer
Background Ditrysia comprise close to 99% of all butterflies and moths. The evolutionary
relationships among the ditrysian superfamilies have received considerable attention in …

Imaging honey bee brain anatomy with micro-X-ray-computed tomography

W Ribi, TJ Senden, A Sakellariou, A Limaye… - Journal of Neuroscience …, 2008 - Elsevier
Technologies for imaging in three dimensions are greatly desired by researchers in many
biological disciplines. However, when imaging small animals such as invertebrates, the …

Systematic comparison and reconstruction of sea urchin (Echinoidea) internal anatomy: a novel approach using magnetic resonance imaging

A Ziegler, C Faber, S Mueller, T Bartolomaeus - BMC biology, 2008 - Springer
Background Traditional comparative morphological analyses and subsequent three-
dimensional reconstructions suffer from a number of drawbacks. This is particularly evident …

The Digital Fish Library: using MRI to digitize, database, and document the morphological diversity of fish

RM Berquist, KM Gledhill, MW Peterson, AH Doan… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Museum fish collections possess a wealth of anatomical and morphological data that are
essential for documenting and understanding biodiversity. Obtaining access to specimens …

A new dimension in combining data? The use of morphology and phylogenomic data in metazoan systematics

G Giribet - Acta Zoologica, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Giribet, G. 2010. A new dimension in combining data? The use of morphology and
phylogenomic data in metazoan systematics.—Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 91: 11–19 …

Functional magnetic resonance microscopy at single-cell resolution in Aplysia californica

G Radecki, R Nargeot, IO Jelescu… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
In this work, we show the feasibility of performing functional MRI studies with single-cell
resolution. At ultrahigh magnetic field, manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance …

Invertebrate oncology: diseases, diagnostics, and treatment

AL Newton, GA Lewbart - Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal …, 2017 - vetexotic.theclinics.com
At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was argued that invertebrates were incapable of
developing neoplasia. 1, 2 This argument was based on anatomic differences in the nervous …

What's in this crab? MRI providing high-resolution three-dimensional insights into recent finds and historical collections of Brachyura

S Köhnk, J Baudewig, D Brandis, S Boretius - Zoology, 2017 - Elsevier
Museum collections may be viewed as a unique window onto the diversity and the functional
evolution of species on earth. Detailed information about the inner structure of many …