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Tag Archives: Wikispecies
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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A snapshot of versatility
Wolbachia is one of the favourite model systems in evolutionary biology and theoretical biology, as it has such a wide range of effects on the hosts it resides in. When the first Wolbachia genome was published in 2004, the paper was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004, CC BY, Creative Commons, electron microscopy, evolutionary biology, French, genome, Liza Gross, Martin Wu, model organism, model system, PLoS Biology, PNG, Scott O'Neill, synopsis, theoretical biology, Wikimedia Commons, Wikinews, Wikispecies, Wolbachia
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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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Critically endangered: Taudactylus eungellensis, the Eungella Torrent Frog
As explained on Saturday, Wikimedia Commons has three files (WebCite) categorized both under IUCN Critically endangered species and Open access (publishing). Following in the footsteps of Camarhynchus heliobates.png and Gyps bengalensis PLoS.png, today’s Open Access File of the Day shall thus be Taudactylus eungellensis.png. Fig. 1 of the synopsis (presumably by Liza Gross) of … Continue reading
Critically endangered: the Galapagos mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates), the rarest of Darwin’s finches
By definition, endangered species consist of low numbers of individuals, which also affects the probability of being able to take good images or recordings of the species, or to find such materials if they already exist. Wikimedia Commons has the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Bulgarian, Camarhynchus heliobates, CatScan, CC BY, Creative Commons, Critically endangered, Darwin's finches, endangered species, Galapagos, Henrik Brumm, IUCN Red List, Michael Dvorak, PLoS ONE, PNG, tools, toolserver, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikispecies
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Two or three sexes, that is the question
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is an excursion to the world of green algae, featuring Gonium pectorale (A), Eudorina elegans (B), Pleodorina californica (C), and Volvox carteri (D) as witnesses on the relative size of gametes in an investigation about whether Pogonomyrmex ants have two or three … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004, Aurora M. Nedelcu, CC BY, comparative biology, Creative Commons, Eudorina elegans, French, Gonium pectorale, harvester ants, John Whitfield, Pleodorina californica, PLoS Biology, Pogonomyrmex, sex, Volvocales Information Project, Volvox carteri, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wiktionary
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Preparing for its 78th birthday, a species of fly begins to thrive on Wikimedia projects
Apocephalus borealis is a species of small parasitoid fly that had long been known to science - in fact, the original paper from 1924 by Charles T Brues is in the Public Domain already – but had not been covered by any Wikimedia project before … Continue reading
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Tagged 1924, 2012, Andrew Core, Apocephalus borealis, bees, CC BY, Charles T Brues, colony collapse disorder, composite figure, Creative Commons, English, German, PLoS ONE, PNG, public domain, Serbian, Spanish, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikispecies
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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
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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