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| Title |
Easier detection of invertebrate "identification-key characters" with light of different wavelengths
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, October 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-8-27 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marcel HM Koken, Jacques Grall |
| Abstract |
The marine α-taxonomist often encounters two problems. Firstly, the "environmental dirt" that is frequently present on the specimens and secondly the difficulty in distinguishing key-features due to the uniform colours which fixed animals often adopt.Here we show that illuminating animals with deep-blue or ultraviolet light instead of the normal white-light abrogates both difficulties; dirt disappears and important details become clearly visible. This light regime has also two other advantages. It allows easy detection of very small, normally invisible, animals (0.1 μm range). And as these light wavelengths can induce fluorescence, new identification markers may be discovered by this approach. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 21 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 35% |
| Researcher | 8 | 35% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 4% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 1 | 4% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 3 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 52% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 22% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 4% |
| Materials Science | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 3 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
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