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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Salamanders as a new model system for Open Access?
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is taken from an article about limb regeneration – perhaps a worthy read for those that have paid an arm and a leg recently for access to that (huge, but shrinking) part of the research … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004, Anoop Kumar, Catalan, CC BY, Creative Commons, limb generation, Liza Gross, Open Access, PLoS Biology, PNG, Salamander, synopsis, Template, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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Anatomy of the human ear – editable version
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is editable. It is the first in this series with that property. The originally published figure was composite and provided as a TIFF, but User:Inductiveload went the extra mile and converted both parts to SVG format. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005, adaptation, auditory perception, Axel Brockmann, Catalan, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, Croation, ear, editability, EPS, file size, graphics, Ido, Kazakh, Lars Chittka, open licenses, PLoS Biology, primer, Reuse, SVG, TIFF, translation, vector graphics, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary
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Chamaeleon on the watch
Chamaeleons are famous for their camouflage skills. This exemplar of Bradypodion taeniabronchum, though, can’t hide its pride about being on today’s Open Access File of the Day as it sticks up its nose. Cropped from Fig. 2 of the article Selection for Social Signalling … Continue reading
Copy, crop, repeat until useful – the case of Lissencephaly.jpg
Most of the files presented in the Open Access File of the Day series so far had simply been copied or cropped from the original source, the main exception being Qualia of sound.jpg, which is basically a mashup of an … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, CC BY, Citizendium, composite figure, Creative Commons, German, gyrification, Japanese, Jean-François Mangin, JPG, Julien Lefèvre, Lisencefalia, Lissencephalie, Lissencephaly, mashup, open licenses, pathology, PLoS Computational Biology, PNG, Reuse, Spanish, TIFF, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, 脳回
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Wanted: A skin doctor for Tyrannosaurus
Little do we know about the skin of dinosaurs, but progress occurs nonetheless. I still remember the touch of the dinosaur skin model in the Natural History Museum in London, and catching an infection was not amongst the thoughts I think … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, Arabic, birds, CC BY, Chinese, Chris Glen, Creative Commons, drawing, Ewan D. S. Wolff, fossils, infection, JPG, pathogen, PLoS ONE, skin, Tyrannosaurus, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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Traces of a feast
Major holidays in cultures around the world are accompanied by feasts of various sorts. A feast of a different kind is depicted in today’s Open Access File of the Day - leaf mines, traces of larval (Phyllocnistis hyperpersea) consumption on a leaf … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, David Wagner, Donald Davis, English, Feast, Holiday, JPG, larva, leaf miner, leaf mines, leaf mining, Persea borborina, Phyllocnistis hyperpersea, traces, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, ZooKeys
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Look who’s talking now, but be careful
So far, none of the Open Access Files of the Day had sound, not even the two videos amongst them. This fits into the wider picture of multimedia being neglected in the scientific corners of Wikimedia projects, or in terms of reuse … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, acoustics, audio, CC BY, Chlorobalius leucoviridis, Creative Commons, David C. Marshall, English, JPG, Kathy B. R. Hill, mimicry, OGG, OGV, Pauropsalta, PLoS ONE, predator, prey, Researchblogging, Reuse, sandstone, simple, sound, supplementary materials, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, Thy NO shines out brightly!
Conifers are quite popular these days. Today’s Open Access File of the Day provides a cellular perspective on the matter, showing cultured cells of a Pacific Yew (Taxus brevifolia) that produce and diffuse nitric oxide (NO; coloured in white). Fig. … Continue reading
Blue legs, baby’s got blue legs
In our species, blue eyes have received many an artistic treatment (here is one). Other species tend to have other preferences, but for those into blue legs, males of the spider Oligoxystre diamantinensis may well be worth a look (for … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, blue, blue eyes, blue legs, CC BY, female, JPG, male, Oligoxystre diamantinensis, Polish, Rogerio Bertani, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikispecies, ZooKeys
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Nature’s approach to sharing and reuse
There are multiple ways to build upon previous achievements. Simple sharing of source code, protocols and materials under open licenses is one option, reengineering another (unless prevented by patent law). In biology, mimicry employs both strategies. Can you tell which one … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, Axel Meyer, butterfly, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, English, Fijian, Heliconius, mimicry, open licenses, PLoS Biology, PNG, primer, Reuse, sharing, Wikibooks, Wikipedia
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