Highlights•Specific innovative techniques for external and internal structures.•New quality of
documentation—accelerated acquisition of high quality data.•Independent data for …

We present Biomedisa, a free and easy-to-use open-source online platform developed for
semi-automatic segmentation of large volumetric images. The segmentation is based on a …

Some microbes possess the ability to adaptively manipulate host behavior. To better
understand how such microbial parasites control animal behavior, we examine the cell-level …

Motivation Scientists increasingly rely on intelligent information systems to help them in their
daily tasks, in particular for managing research objects, like publications or datasets. The …

The mesosoma is the power core of the ant, containing critical structural and muscular
elements for the movement of the head, legs, and metasoma. It has been hypothesized that …

Small organisms use propulsive springs rather than muscles to repeatedly actuate high
acceleration movements, even when constrained to tiny displacements and limited by …

Vertebrate models provide indispensable paradigms to study development and disease.
Their analysis requires a quantitative morphometric study of the body, organs and tissues …

R290 Current Biology 27, R283–R293, April 24, 2017 to distinguish different structures if
they vary in their elemental composition or density. This means that, by using the right optics …

Mate choice, copulation, genital morphology, and sperm storage are not very well
understood in millipedes. The use of three-dimensional x-ray computed tomography (μCT) …

About 50% of all animal species are considered parasites. The linkage of species diversity
to a parasitic lifestyle is especially evident in the insect order Hymenoptera. However, fossil …