Research updates from the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit (Arilab) located at @OISTedu in Okinawa, Japan. PI @EvanEconomo.
Onna-son, Okinawa
Joined July 2016
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Our lab (arilab.unit.oist.jp/) is hiring multiple postdocs and a computing technician. Come join us and have some fun working on biodiversity in Okinawa!
Postdoc: live-oist-main.pantheonsite.…
Computing Technician: live-oist-main.pantheonsite.…
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Our planet is positively teeming with “little things that run the world”-invertebrates. Yet, it has been a challenge to see the big picture of how invertebrate diversity is distributed around the globe. Happy to share that, finally, we have a detailed view for one group: ants.
New research on ants has produced a treasure map for finding hidden biodiversity among other small-range species.
Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances: fcld.ly/bq412s1
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Got CT data? Want to estimate and visualize muscle architecture (volume, fiber number, pennation angles, etc.) for comparative morphology / biomechanics? See the comparisons and workflows by @Jules_For_Fools out in @iobopen. Works for verts and inverts.
I’m stoked to advertise my first first-author PhD paper in 🧵 about the estimation of muscle architecture from CT data comparing various methods.
Pavel Puchenkov, Heiko Stark, @EvanEconomo and I present workflows that worked for ant and bird muscle.
doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac001
ALT Rendering of the head and mandible closer muscle of a pharaoh ant Monomorium pharaonis from a micro-CT scan. Muscle fibers are colored in a gradient according to pennation angle to the force transmitting structure.
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I’m stoked to advertise my first first-author PhD paper in 🧵 about the estimation of muscle architecture from CT data comparing various methods.
Pavel Puchenkov, Heiko Stark, @EvanEconomo and I present workflows that worked for ant and bird muscle.
doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac001
ALT Rendering of the head and mandible closer muscle of a pharaoh ant Monomorium pharaonis from a micro-CT scan. Muscle fibers are colored in a gradient according to pennation angle to the force transmitting structure.
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Preparing figures for #ESJ68: Ant Mandibles in all kinds of shapes segmented with #Biomedisa, arranged with #Blender Python using centroid size to adjust scale. Find your favs! @EconomoLab
#Ants #Morphology #PhD #3D #Blender3d
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Our new study on the evolution of trap-jaw ants is out in @PLoSBiology. Here's a thread about what we found. journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
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Bittersweet to share our new paper in Frontiers of Zoology on how the loss of flight allowed for changes to the internal design of the ant thorax. The study was led by Christian Peeters (@bullant56), who passed away last month.
frontiersinzoology.biomedcen…
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Gutted and reeling to learn of the passing of our great collaborator and friend, the brilliant myrmecologist Christian Peeters. @bullant56
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Very sad day! Our friend & colleague Christian Peeters @bullant56 passed away
I will miss his passionate, enthusiastic, extremely honest, sometimes thickheaded, but always charming way of being!
The last picture he sent me. Happy pulling ants from a trunk to send me.
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Congrats to @CongLiu0514 for receiving his PhD today, first ever from our lab and one of first batch ever from @OISTedu. Excellent job, Cong, it has been a pleasure.
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Just added our lab to this list. Science is international and won't be stopped by any nation. #ScienceShelters xitter.cf/EMBOcomm/status/826846…
Help scientists who are stranded outside the US as a result of the recent immigration ban embo.org/science-solidarity #ScienceShelters
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#3Dreconstruction of mouthparts of a doryline #ant based on #microCT scan data #3Drotationvideo @EconomoLab
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3 ways to show an #ant: montage photo, #3dmodel, and #3dprint, but which one is the model and which one the print? #microCT @EconomoLab
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Inordinate Spinescence: Taxonomic Revision, Microtomography of Pheidole cervicornis Group dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.p…
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George R.R. Martin on our dragon ants. Thanks, George! grrm.livejournal.com/495502.… #songoficeandfire
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Scientists have found two new “dragon-like” species of ants in the rainforest
bit.ly/2asCYhm
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Brace yourself, the dragon ants are coming bit.ly/2aeSFMj
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Apparently #GoT Daenerys has a side job naming new species of dragon ants. Meet Pheidole Viserion & Pheidole Drogon! bit.ly/2ahwQJx