July 21, 2018 Video/Audio Open Access

Khalife, Adam

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{
  "publisher": "Zenodo", 
  "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.1318495", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Khalife, Adam"
    }
  ], 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2018, 
        7, 
        21
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "abstract": "<p>Ants of the genus<em> Melissotarsus </em>(subfamily Myrmicinae) inhabit tunnel systems excavated in the wood of living trees, where they keep large numbers of symbiotic armoured scale insects (Diaspididae). Tunnelling&nbsp;through healthy wood requires tremendous power. We investigated morphology of the musculoskeletal system of <em>Melissotarsus</em> using X-ray microcomputed tomography and 3D modelling (Khalife et al. 2018).</p>\n\n<p>Segmented structures inside one half of the head of a <em>Melissotarsus </em>worker: mandible (pale green; tip cut off); closer muscles of mandible (orange); closer apodeme (red); opener muscles of mandible (light blue); opener apodeme (dark blue); brain and suboesophageal ganglion (brown); tentorium and&nbsp;ventromedial phragma (green).</p>\n\n<p><strong>Micro-CT </strong>scans were performed at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan<strong>.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Segmentation&nbsp;</strong>of the reconstructed image stacks was performed with ITK-SNAP 3.6.0<strong> </strong></p>\n\n<p>Khalife A, Keller R, Billen J, Hita Garcia F, Economo E &amp; Peeters C (2018) Skeletomuscular adaptations of head and legs of <em>Melissotarsus</em> ants for tunnelling through living wood. <strong>Frontiers in Zoology</strong>&nbsp;15: 30.&nbsp;https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0277-6</p>", 
  "title": "Video of surface rendering of internal head structures in Melissotarsus worker ants, specialised for chewing healthy wood.", 
  "type": "motion_picture", 
  "id": "1318495"
}