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Assessing Soft-Tissue Shrinkage Estimates in Museum Specimens Imaged With Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography (diceCT)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2018

Brandon P. Hedrick ,
Laurel Yohe ,
Abby Vander Linden ,
Liliana M. Dávalos ,
Karen Sears ,
Alexa Sadier ,
Stephen J. Rossiter ,
Kalina T. J. Davies  and
Elizabeth Dumont
Brandon P. Hedrick*
Affiliation:
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Laurel Yohe
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, 650 Life Sciences Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Abby Vander Linden
Affiliation:
Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Liliana M. Dávalos
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, 650 Life Sciences Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Karen Sears
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Alexa Sadier
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Stephen J. Rossiter
Affiliation:
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
Kalina T. J. Davies
Affiliation:
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
Elizabeth Dumont
Affiliation:
School of Natural Sciences, University of California–Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA
*
*Author for correspondence: Brandon P. Hedrick, E-mail: bphedrick1@gmail.com
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Abstract

The increased accessibility of soft-tissue data through diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced computed tomography (diceCT) enables comparative biologists to increase the taxonomic breadth of their studies with museum specimens. However, it is still unclear how soft-tissue measurements from preserved specimens reflect values from freshly collected specimens and whether diceCT preparation may affect these measurements. Here, we document and evaluate the accuracy of diceCT in museum specimens based on the soft-tissue reconstructions of brains and eyes of five bats. Based on proxies, both brains and eyes were roughly 60% of the estimated original sizes when first imaged. However, these structures did not further shrink significantly over a 4-week staining interval, and 1 week in 2.5% iodine-based solution yielded sufficient contrast for differentiating among soft-tissues. Compared to six “fresh” bat specimens imaged shortly after field collection (not fixed in ethanol), the museum specimens had significantly lower relative volumes of the eyes and brains. Variation in field preparation techniques and conditions, and long-term storage in ethanol may be the primary causes of shrinkage in museum specimens rather than diceCT staining methodology. Identifying reliable tissue-specific correction factors to adjust for the shrinkage now documented in museum specimens requires future work with larger samples.

Keywords

iodine-stainingmicroCTbatsshrinkagediceCT
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Biological Science Applications
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2018 , pp. 284 - 291
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© Microscopy Society of America 2018 

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Cite this article: Hedrick BP, Yohe L, Vander Linden A, Dávalos LM, Sears K, Sadier A, Rossiter SJ, Davies KTJ, Dumont E (2018) Assessing Soft-Tissue Shrinkage Estimates in Museum Specimens Imaged With Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography (diceCT). Microsc Microanal24(3): 284–291. doi: 10.1017/S1431927618000399

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