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For some, Blue Monday is green under UV light
After featuring a model organism yesterday, today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts another one: mice. The photo – taken under illumination with ultraviolet light – shows two transgenic mice (on the left and right) expressing enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein, whereas … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, blue, BMC Cancer, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, English, German, GFP, Green Fluorescent Protein, Ingrid Moen, JPG, mice, model organism, mouse, mus musculus, ultraviolet, Wikipedia
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A beautiful mountain with wings
Today’s Open Access File of the Day takes us to a mountainous area in northwestern Yunnan, China, which is the habitat of some of chaos theory’s most famous mascots – butterflies, specifically of the species Phengaris atroguttata and Phengaris xiushani. The latter was recently described, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, butterfly, CC BY, China, Chinese, Creative Commons, English, habitat, Josef Settele, JPG, landscape, Min Wang, mountains, Phengaris atroguttata, Phengaris xiushani, Polish, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Xiu-Shan, Xiushan Li, Yunnan, ZooKeys
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Universal access to oxygenated blood? Please enter credit card details.
In light of the ongoing debate around the Research Works Act, universal access and the role of publishers in research communication, some images – like the suckling pigs on December 21 or today’s Open Access File of the Day - may take on a special meaning: just imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008, academic publishing, Bulgarian, Caitlin Sedwick, CC BY, Creative Commons, fetus, Greek, JPG, Open Access, placenta, PLoS Biology, Research Works Act, scholarly communication, SENP2, Shang-Yi Chiu, synopsis, umbilical cord, universal access, Wei Hsu, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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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
Lice in 50 languages
Lice can be tremendously useful. For instance, the high but not perfect specificity of several different species of lice allows to use information about their phylogeny to infer some information about the phylogenies of their host species. Some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004, Category:Graph images that should use vector graphics, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, David L. Reed, evolution, Fahrenholzia pinnata, Greek, human evolution, JPG, lice, phylogenics, PLoS Biology, Reuse, SVG, Vincent S. Smith, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Zazaki
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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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Shelter for a parasite
Today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts the snail Biomphalaria glabrata, important for its role as an intermediate host to the parasite Schistosoma mansoni that causes schistosomiasis. Cropped and retouched from Fig. 1 of the article The NIH-NIAID Schistosomiasis Resource Center, … Continue reading
Biomass in the eyes of children
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is a composite figure: Part A illustrates how children perceive the relative contributions of some eukaryotic taxa to the overall biomass on our planet, part B puts this into a scientific perspective. The size of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008, biomass, CC BY, children, composite figure, Creative Commons, Hindi, Jake L. Snaddon, JPG, Kannada, PLoS ONE, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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A tumor in the making
I have been asked a few times (example) why the Open Access File of the Day series is so slanted towards science (rather than, say, humanities), and biomedical research in particular. I typically reply something along the lines of … … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, attribution, Biology, BMC Cancer, CatScan, CC BY, chemistry, Creative Commons, cross-disciplinary, Engineering, Farsi, History, humanities, JPG, Linguistics, Literature, Mathias Fasshauer, Medicine, Open Access, Physics, Polish, science, tools, toolserver, tumor, tumor growth, Universität Leipzig, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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