Tag Archives: BMC Evolutionary Biology

The dots are gone

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

Today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts one step in the life cycle of the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina, that of sexual maturity. In comparison to the previous stage, it has lost the characteristic blue and orange dots.     Fig. 1H of the article Dynamic expression … Continue reading →

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Article-level metrics on reuse – a gastropod perspective

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

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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Snail eggs

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Daniel Mietchen

Today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts eggs of the snail Pomacea canaliculata. It is cropped from a composite figure that compares egg masses of several species of Pomacea. Metadata: Cropped and rearranged from Fig. 3 of the article The identity, distribution, and impacts of … Continue reading →

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Open Access File of the Day on Wikimedia Commons: Rapana venosa shell.png

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Daniel Mietchen

Today at GLAMcamp Amsterdam, I learned about Prolineserver’s tool GLAMourous that automates part of the search for candidates for the Open Access File of the Day. I ran it for the Commons category Images from journals and its subcategories, which contains many of … Continue reading →

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