Size, shape, and direction matters: Matching secondary genital structures in male and female mites using multiple microscopy techniques and 3D modeling

• Orlando Cómbita-Heredia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Orlando Cómbita-Heredia, Hans Klompen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: combitaheredia.1@osu.edu

  Affiliations Acarology Laboratory, Ecology Evolution and Organismal Biology EEOB, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Centro de Investigación en Acarología, Bogotá, Colombia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8523-8998

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• Connor J. Gulbronson,

  Roles Methodology

  Current address: Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

  Affiliation Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Postdoctoral Fellow, Floral and Nursery Plant Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. National Arboretum, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Ronald Ochoa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Edwin Javier Quintero-Gutiérrez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA), Manizales, Colombia

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• Gary Bauchan †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America, Agricultural Research Service, Soybean Genomics and Enhancement Laboratory, Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Hans Klompen

  Contributed equally to this work with: Orlando Cómbita-Heredia, Hans Klompen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Acarology Laboratory, Ecology Evolution and Organismal Biology EEOB, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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