The Visible Interactive Iguana – part of the Visible Interactive Anatomy series at WitmerLab at Ohio University
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The Visible Interactive Iguana. These open access resources—both here on MorphoSource and on the Ohio University site—present our work on the 3D anatomical structure of the head and skull of the green iguana, Iguana iguana. These resources are outgrowths of our more technical work and are intended to serve as STEM educational aids for K-12 and undergraduate students, as well as researchers. Our featured specimen is an adult green iguana (OUVC 10677) collected legally and euthanized humanely in Zoo Miami and provided to us for research and education. We scanned the head region on the OUµCT scanner in 2012 at a resolution of 90µm (0.090 mm). We imported the scan data into workstations running Avizo and digitally extracted the bones and soft tissues. The work on this project was done primarily by Alexandra Spaw Johns, at the time an undergraduate student in Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College as part of her 2012 Summer Research Apprenticeship in WitmerLab (she is now an MD physician). Lexie segmented all the structures in Avizo, generated the 3D PDFs in Deep Exploration and Adobe Acrobat, and made the movies in Adobe Premiere. She was assisted especially by Jason Bourke, as well as other WitmerLab members. More content will be added in the future. Funded by the National Science Foundation.