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    Sheeba-Samuel/ReOpen: ReOpen

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    <p>The REPRODUCE-ME ontology, the mapping files and the SPARQL queries for reproducibility of scientific experiments.</p&gt

    Testudobracon travancorensis Sheeba, sp. nov.

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    Testudobracon travancorensis Sheeba sp. nov. (Figs 7–8) Material examined. Holotype, female, (♀) “ India: Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Palode, 10.xii.2004, coll. T.C. Narendran & Party ”. Paratypes: 1(♀), “ India: Kerala, Palakkad, Pattambi, Central Orchard, 12.viii.2003, coll. T.C. Narendran & Party ” (DZUC). Description. Holotype, female, length 3.60 mm, antenna 2.54 mm, fore wing 2.92 mm, ovipositor 1.42 mm. Head. Antenna with 24 segments. Length of first flagellomere as long as second. First, second and penultimate flagellomeres 2.50, 2.50 and 2.67× as long as wide respectively. Head 1.43, 2.03× as wide as long medially in anterior and dorsal view respectively. Vertex granulate anteriorly, rugose posteriorly, sparsely setose (Fig. 7 C). Frons granulate with median groove and setose laterally (Fig. 7 C). OOL: diameter of posterior ocellus: POL = 10:4:7; Length of eye 2.63× as long as temple in dorsal view. Lateral temples smooth, shiny and sparsely setose. Height of eye: width of face: width of head= 26:31:59. Face granulate with median longitudinal ridge dorsally, laterally and medially sparsely setose (Fig. 7 B). Height of clypeus: inter-tentorial distance: tentorio-ocular distance = 3.5: 12.5:10. Clypeus with weak dorsal carina. Length of malar space 2.00× basal width of mandible. Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.17× as long as high. Pronotum smooth, shiny, laterally with crenulate groove, glabrous. Mesoscutum faintly punctate, densely setose, middle lobe with a weak mid longitudinal ridge (Fig. 8 A). Notaulus distinct, not crenulated (Fig. 8 A). Scutellar sulcus wide, deep, divided by six carinae (Fig. 8 A). Scutellum smooth, shiny and setose (Fig. 8 A). Mesopleuron rugose-striate anteriorly, moderately setose except a small area dorsally, and near precoxal sulcus glabrous (Fig. 8 B). Precoxal sulcus faintly crenulated (Fig. 8 B). Median area of metanotum with short anterior median carina. Propodeum rugose, with a complete mid longitudinal carina. Wings. Fore wing vein 1-SR 0.53× 1-M. Ratio of length of fore wing veins: r: 3-SR: SR1 = 6:11:31.5 and 2- SR: 3-SR: r-m = 10:11:6. Hind wing vein C+SC+R with single hamulus apically. Ratio of length of hind wing veins1r-m: SC+R1 = 6:9. Legs. Length of fore femur: tibia: tarsus = 21:20.5:25. Hind coxa punctate and sparsely setose. Length of hind femur: tibia: basitarsus = 28:31:13.5. Metasoma. First metasomal tergite 0.70× as long as wide apically with a raised median area posteriorly, sides of median area crenulated, Second metasomal tergite 2.50× wider than long, anterior half of second tergite slightly raised medially in relation to lateral parts and with a pair of parallel sublateral carinae, area between carinae foveate-rugose, reticulate laterally (Fig. 8 C). Third metasomal tergite reticulate (Fig. 8 C). Fourth to sixth metasomal tergites rugose, setose. Third to fifth metasomal tergites rounded postero-laterally. Sixth tergite with small angular protuberance postero-laterally, medial emargination 0.80×as long as tergite medially. Ovipositor 0.67, 0.48× as long as metasoma and fore wing respectively. Colour. Body yellowish brown (Fig. 7 A) except following, antenna, eyes (Figs 7 B & C), occiput (Fig. 7 C), propleuron (Fig. 8 B), mesopleuron dorsally (Fig. 8 B), wing veins (Fig. 8 D), pterostigma (Fig. 8 D), mid coxa, basal three fourth of hind femur and lateral corners of third to fifth tergites brown; frons on either side of median groove (Fig. 7 C), three-quarters of middle lobe of mesoscutum (Fig. 8 A) and posterior half of lateral lobes (Fig. 8 A), propodeum, mesopleuron ventrally (Fig. 8 B), hind coxa, femur, and tibia black; ocelli shiny yellow (Fig. 7 C); fore, mid legs except coxa and hind trochanter yellow. Male. Unknown. Distribution. India (Kerala) (Fig. 9). Host. Unknown. Etymology. The species is named after the region (Travancore region of Kerala) from where the holotype was collected. Comments. Testudobracon travancorensis sp. nov. is similar to T. niger in having third to fifth antennal segments approximately equal length to one another; middle lobe of mesoscutum with a weak median longitudinal ridge, but differs from it in having the following characters: face granulate with median longitudinal ridge dorsally (face rugulose and punctate laterally in T. niger), ratio of length of fore wing veins= r: 3-SR: SR1 = 6:11:31.5 (r: 3- SR: SR1 = 9:17: 51 in T. niger), fore wing vein 1-SR+M straight in T. travancorensis sp. nov. (fore wing vein 1- SR+M slightly curved basally towards posterior margin in T. niger), sixth metasomal tergite with small angular protuberences postero-laterally (postero-lateral protuberences of sixth metasomal tergite rounded in T. niger). This new species is also similar to T. malabaricus sp. nov. in having frons granulate; pronotum smooth, shiny with crenulate grooves laterally; fore wing vein 1-SR+M straight and scutellar sulcus with six carinae. However it differs from T. malabaricus sp. nov. in having the following characters, vertex granulate anteriorly, rugose posteriorly, middle lobe of mesoscutum with a weak median longitudinal ridge (vertex granulate; middle lobe of mesoscutum with moderately developed medial longitudinal ridge in T. malabaricus sp. nov.), mesopleuron rugose-striate, moderately setose except postero-ventrally glabrous (mesopleuron rugose, moderately setose antero-dorsally, punctate and setose antero-ventrally, smooth, shiny and setose posteriorly except around pleural sulcus glabrous in T. malabaricus sp. nov.), sixth metasomal tergite with small angular protuberences posterolaterally (sixth metasomal tergite slightly rounded postero-laterally in T. malabaricus sp. nov.), medial emargination of sixth metasomal tergite 0.80× as long as tergite medially (medial emargination of sixth metasomal tergite 0.64× as long as tergite medially in T. malabaricus sp. nov.).Published as part of Sheeba, M., Ranjith, A. P. & Narendran, T. C., 2017, Review of Testudobracon Quicke (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with descriptions of four new species from south India, pp. 331-346 in Zootaxa 4232 (3) on pages 341-345, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/29322

    Reproducible Research: Responding to 6W and 1H Questions of Data Provenance

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    Slides presented by Sheeba Samuel for the invited speaker talk on "Reproducible Research: Responding to 6W and 1H Questions of Data Provenance" in the HEIBRiDS Lecture Series at Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, Germany on 5th January 2022

    FAIR Jupyter: a knowledge graph approach to semantic sharing and granular exploration of a computational notebook reproducibility dataset

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    The way in which data are shared can affect their utility and reusability. Here, we demonstrate how data that we had previously shared in bulk can be mobilized further through a knowledge graph that allows for much more granular exploration and interrogation. The original dataset is about the computational reproducibility of GitHub-hosted Jupyter notebooks associated with biomedical publications. It contains rich metadata about the publications, associated GitHub repositories and Jupyter notebooks, and the notebooks' reproducibility. We took this dataset, converted it into semantic triples and loaded these into a triple store to create a knowledge graph, FAIR Jupyter, that we made accessible via a web service. This enables granular data exploration and analysis through queries that can be tailored to specific use cases. Such queries may provide details about any of the variables from the original dataset, highlight relationships between them or combine some of the graph's content with materials from corresponding external resources. We provide a collection of example queries addressing a range of use cases in research and education. We also outline how sets of such queries can be used to profile specific content types, either individually or by class. We conclude by discussing how such a semantically enhanced sharing of complex datasets can both enhance their FAIRness, i.e., their findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability, and help identify and communicate best practices, particularly with regards to data quality, standardization, automation and reproducibility

    PhD Dissertation Defense: A Provenance-based Semantic Approach to Support Understandability, Reproducibility, and Reuse of Scientific Experiments

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    Slides presented for the PhD Dissertation Defense by Sheeba Samuel. This is based on the research work done as part of PhD Thesis "A Provenance-based Semantic Approach to Support Understandability, Reproducibility, and Reuse of Scientific Experiments"

    A new species of the genus Phanerotoma Wesmael (Braconidae: Cheloninae) with a key to Indian species

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    A new species of Phanerotoma viz., P. malabarica Sheeba & Narendran sp. nov. from India is described and compared with its closest relative. A key to Indian species of Phanerotoma is also provided

    A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS PHANEROTOMA WESMAEL (BRACONIDAE: CHELONINAE) WITH A KEY TO INDIAN SPECIES

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    A new species of Phanerotoma viz., P. malabarica Sheeba & Narendran sp. nov. from India is described and compared with its closest relative. A key to Indian species of Phanerotoma is also provided

    Review of Testudobracon Quicke (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with descriptions of four new species from south India

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    Sheeba, M., Ranjith, A. P., Narendran, T. C. (2017): Review of Testudobracon Quicke (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with descriptions of four new species from south India. Zootaxa 4232 (3): 331-346, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4232.3.
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