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Tag Archives: 2009
The rove beetle Dalotia coriaria is featured on Wikispecies
Today’s Open Access File of the Day comes straight from the Main Page of Wikispecies: the rove beetle Dalotia coriaria. Fig. 46 of the article New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada. I. Aleocharinae, published in 2009 by Reginal … Continue reading
A dino on the move
Yesterday, I came across a post by Stuart Shieber, in which he highlighted a quote and linked to a blog post about an interview that Richard Poynder had done with Jan Velterop, in which the latter had said the following: … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, Animal skeletons, Araripesuchus wegeneri, attribution stacking, CC BY, Creative Commons, Czech, dinosaurs, fossils, Hans Larsson, JPG, palaeontology, Paul Sereno, publishing, Research Works Act, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikispecies, ZooKeys
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Pāpalōmōyotl, the blood-feeding sandfly
Nahuatl is the language spoken by the Aztecs. It is also one of the languages in which a Wikipedia exists, and on December 22 last year, Marrovi started its entry on Pāpalōmōyotl, the blood-feeding sandfly scientifically known as Lutzomyia longipalpis (no English-language Wikipedia … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, Aztecs, CC BY, Creative Commons, English, issue image, JPG, Leishmania, Matthew Rogers, Nahuatl, Parasites, PLoS Pathogens, Ray Wilson, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikispecies
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Article-level metrics on reuse – a gastropod perspective
An article, Neogastropod phylogenetic relationships based on entire mitochondrial genomes, was published by Regina L Cunha, Cristina Grande and Rafael Zardoya in BMC Evolutionary Biology in 2009. It contains multiple phylogenetic trees, with thumbnail images added to represent inhabitants of individual branches. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, Altmetrics, Article-level metrics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, Cristina Grande, most viewed, PDF, phylogenics, Rafael Zardoya, Regina L Cunha, toolserver, Vietnamese, WebCite, Wikimedia Commons
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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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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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