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Easier detection of invertebrate "identification-key characters" with light of different wavelengths
Provedor de dados: Institutional Archive of Ifreme (ArchiMer)
Autores: Koken, Marcel; Grall, Jacques.
The marine alpha-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 mu m range). And as these light wavelengths can induce fluorescence, new identification markers may be discovered by this approach.
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Fluorescent colours; Light emission; Determination; Cryptic species; Dimorphism; Pattern UV light; Deep-blue light; Autofluorescence.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00185/29660/28026.pdf