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Two Sides to Every Worm: the Polychaete Nereis

August 29, 2009

In honor of our foray into the world of polychaete worms this week, I thought I’d share some closeups of a polychaete that has been the subject of many an invertebrate lab dissection: Nereis.
In this first video you can see our subject looking kind of cute and shy (awwww!). Pay attention to the dorsal (top) [...]

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The Swimming Green Bomb

August 22, 2009

UPDATE: Now with fabulous Swima photos courtesy lead scientist Karen Osborn!
. . . Is not the name of a new DARPA grant project. All over teh intert00bz this week was the story of a newly discovered group of annelid polychaete worms following the publication of a paper describing them in Science. Remember annelids? Segmented [...]

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