Articles | Volume 45, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-45-359-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-45-359-2026
Research article
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18 May 2026
Research article |  | 18 May 2026

Testing the applicability of automated size and shape analyses in non-marine ostracods – a case study from the Tibetan Plateau

Marlene Hoehle, Torsten Haberzettl, Peter Frenzel, Antje Schwalb, Junbo Wang, Liping Zhu, and Claudia Wrozyna

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Evolutionary developmental biology aims to uncover mechanisms behind how species change over time, with shape analysis being a key tool. To address slow, manual data collection, we tested AutoMorph, a high-throughput imaging pipeline, on two ostracod species from six Tibetan Plateau lakes. The pipeline successfully extracted size and shape data automatically, reducing processing time and minimizing bias, enabling large-scale datasets for investigating evolutionary and ecological processes.
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