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Article Reference Micro-computed tomography for natural history specimens: a handbook of best practice protocols
Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT or microtomography) is a non-destructive imaging technique using X-rays which allows the digitisation of an object in three dimensions. The ability of micro-CT imaging to visualise both internal and external features of an object, without destroying the specimen, makes the technique ideal for the digitisation of valuable natural history collections. This handbook serves as a comprehensive guide to laboratory micro-CT imaging of different types of natural history specimens, including zoological, botanical, palaeontological and geological samples.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Article Reference Microbilogical, clinical and molecular findings of non-typhoidal Salmonella bloodstream infections associated with malaria, Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Article Reference Microbiomes of aquatic animals
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023
Proceedings Reference Microdiversity inside macrobiodiversity: Zoonotic risk along the Congo river
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Article Reference Microdrile Oligochaeta in bromeliad pools of a Honduran cloud forest
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Inproceedings Reference Microfacies analysis of a middle to upper Frasnian succession at the Lompret quarry (SW Belgium) documenting a transition from the Lion reef to deep marine Neuville and Matagne environments
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018
Article Reference Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium).
The nature and causes of the disappearance of Neanderthals and their apparent replacement by modern humans are subjects of considerable debate. Many researchers have proposed biologically or technologically mediated dietary differences between the two groups as one of the fundamental causes of Neanderthal disappearance. Some scenarios have focused on the apparent lack of plant foods in Neanderthal diets. Here we report direct evidence for Neanderthalconsumption of a variety of plant foods, in the form of phytoliths and starch grains recovered from dental calculus of Neanderthal skeletons from Shanidar Cave, Iraq, and Spy Cave, Belgium. Some of the plants are typical of recent modern human diets, including date palms (Phoenix spp.), legumes, and grass seeds (Triticeae), whereas others are known to be edible but are not heavily used today. Many of the grass seed starches showed damage that is a distinctive marker of cooking. Our results indicate that in both warm eastern Mediterranean and cold northwestern European climates, and across their latitudinal range, Neanderthalsmade use of the diverse plant foods available in their local environment and transformed them into more easily digestible foodstuffs in part through cooking them, suggesting an overall sophistication in Neanderthal dietary regimes.
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Article Reference Micromorph brachiopods from the late Asbian (Mississippian, Viséan) from northwest Ireland (Gleniff, County Sligo)
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Article Reference Micronewsomites et Decoranewsomites, deux nouveaux genres d'ostracodes dévoniens
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Article Reference Microorganization of ovaries and oogenesis of Haplotaxis sp. (Clitellata: Haplotaxidae)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2020