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Media are grouped by projects created by users. Projects tend to contain media tied together by a theme. A project might represent the dataset for a single peer-reviewed paper, the results of a collections digitization project, or data for a digital lesson plan.

Projects can be used to share media ownership and access between project members, and projects can also be used to publish assortments of media and specimens for access and discovery by the public. If you want to share media ownership and access with multiple users across multiple projects, consider creating a user team. Projects can be managed by teams, and users with access to that team also gain access to any projects managed by that team.

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Title Description Team Creator Media Objects
Display all details of Evers & Ponstein. 2022. Turtle mandibular anatomy and 3D models 270 70
Display all details of Cosmoselachus mehlingi Jaws, partial cranium, and gill arches of a symmoriiform chondrichthyan from the Fayetteville Shale (Late Mississippian) Bronson, Allison 13 1
Display all details of Skulls and brain endcasts of rails (Rallidae) This project archives data for Nakao et al. (2022): Relationship between flightlessness and brain morphology among Rallidae. Journal of Anatomy, DOI: 10.1111/joa.13690 44 23
Display all details of Pyrolycus n sp SIO 20-41 CT scan of the skeleton of a new species of Pyrolycus, specimen SIO 20-41 1 1
Display all details of Fischer et al 2020 Short-necked plesiosaurians 3D models 3D models based on laser surface scans of skulls and mandibles of short-necked plesiosaurians (Mesozoic marine reptiles). Associated paper: Fischer et al. 2020. The macroevolutionary landscape of short-necked plesiosaurians. Scientific Reports. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73413-5 EDDyLab 13 8
Display all details of Joyce et al. 2022. Tongemys enigmatica 3D models This project contains the carapace and plastron CT data and derivative 3D models for the specimen NHMUK PV OR 48262, Tongemys enigmatica gen. et sp. nov., which were uploaded as supplements for the paper "An alternative interpretation of the small bodied turtles from the “Middle Purbeck” of England as a new species of compsemydid turtle" by Walter Joyce, Jason Bourque, Vincent Fernandez, and Yann Rollot, to be published in Fossil Record. Models and data are currently uploaded to facilitate review, please refrain from citing/using until paper is formerly published. 11 1
Display all details of Gonopus tibialis 20 20
Display all details of Genome size drives morphological evolution in organ-specific ways Soft tissue uCT scans of livers and hearts of 45 individuals from 9 species of Plethodon. Abstract: Morphogenesis is an emergent property of biochemical and cellular interactions during development. Genome size and the correlated trait of cell size can influence these interactions through effects on developmental rate and tissue geometry, ultimately driving the evolution of morphology. We tested whether variation in genome and body size is related to morphological variation in the heart and liver using nine species of the salamander genus Plethodon (genome sizes 29–67 gigabases). Our results show that overall organ size is a function of body size, whereas tissue structure changes dramatically with evolutionary increases in genome size. In the heart, increased genome size is correlated with a reduction of myocardia in the ventricle, yielding proportionally less force–producing mass and greater intertrabecular space. In the liver, increased genome size is correlated with fewer and larger vascular structures, positioning hepatocytes farther from the circulatory vessels that transport key metabolites. Although these structural changes should have obvious impacts on organ function, their effects on organismal performance and fitness may be negligible because low metabolic rates in salamanders relax selective pressure on function of key metabolic organs. Overall, this study suggests large genome and cell size influence the developmental systems involved in heart and liver morphogenesis. Itgen, Michael 7 7
Display all details of Brawn before brains in placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction The virtual endocasts in this project are still under study and acess will remain limited until futher notice. Ornella Bertrand 26 26
Display all details of Primate Leaping and Bone Functional Adaptation The primary objective of this research is to investigate strength and rigidity of hindlimb skeletal elements - specifically the calcaneus and navicular - in primates that are specialized for saltatory locomotion. This is done by evaluating each element's cortical bone morphology and quantifying its cross-sectional geometric properties and bone volume fraction. As part of this Morphosource project, we aim to provide open access to specimens and media that includes original raw image data derived from microCT scanning technology for each bone, the mid-diaphyseal image (or slice) from which we quantified each bone's cross-sectional geometric properties, and a 3D surface of each bone. This Morphosource project was made possible in part by generous funding from the James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund of the University of Southern California and the National Science Foundation BCS 1944571. Lewton KL, Cardenas E-E, Cruz D, Morales J, Patel BA. 2022. Bone volume in the distal calcaneus correlates with body size but not leap frequency in galagids. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 177(1):27-38. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24411 Lewton KL and Patel BA. 2020. Calcaneal elongation and bone strength in leaping galagids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 171:430-438. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23970 Lewton, Kristi 77 52
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