Research updates from the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit (Arilab) located at @OISTedu in Okinawa, Japan. PI @EvanEconomo.
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Arilab retweeted
13 Dec 2022
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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Arilab retweeted
4 Aug 2022
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.
3 Aug 2022
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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4 Mar 2022
New post: Mainland fieldwork tales: of ants, earthquake, and fish cake arilab.unit.oist.jp/?p=3227
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Arilab retweeted
21 Feb 2022
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.
21 Feb 2022
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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Arilab retweeted
21 Feb 2022
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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18 Oct 2021
New post: Mainland fieldwork tales: of ants, earthquake, and fish cake arilab.unit.oist.jp/mainland…
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Arilab retweeted
9 Mar 2021
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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Arilab retweeted
3 Mar 2021
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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Arilab retweeted
19 Oct 2020
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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17 Sep 2020
Macroevolutionary integration of phenotypes within and across ant worker castes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Arilab retweeted
2 Sep 2020
Gutted and reeling to learn of the passing of our great collaborator and friend, the brilliant myrmecologist Christian Peeters. @bullant56
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Arilab retweeted
2 Sep 2020
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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Arilab retweeted
30 Jul 2020
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14 Jan 2020
New post: Birds have beaks that are a compromise of many functions arilab.unit.oist.jp/birds-ha…
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