#annelids

Scientists share #single_cell #atlas for the highly regenerative #worm, #Pristina leidyi.

#annelids #pluripotency

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-cell-atlas-highly-regenerative.html

Oh I love this so much. Only #scientists will properly investigate the #biodiversity of #emojis

https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(23)02646-9.pdf

tl;dr: Vertebrates are significantly overrepresented. Arthropods, plants, fungi, and microorganisms are underrepresented. Diversity improved since the recent addition of #cnidarians and #annelids...

#ScienceMastodon #Wisskomm #SciComm #biology

Thanks to Bernard and Sandie Degnan for including our annelid life cycle paper in their spotlight for Trends in Genetics

"How larvae and life cycles evolve"

https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/fulltext/S0168-9525(23)00086-0

Good that our work keeps on making a contribution to the community

#EvoDevo #Annelids

Bizarre Beasts: *Why Does This Worm Have So Many Butts?*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9632hMjUr00

This is about the Ramisyllis multicaudata, a branching species of bristle worm (from the Annelid phylum). Extremely odd creature! CW: Don't watch if you are triggered by #worms and #sponges. Although this worm looks more like a brittle star (who are not related at all btw).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramisyllis_multicaudata

#annelids #bristleWorms #marineLife

"Together, our findings suggest that the temporal decoupling of head and trunk formation, as maximally observed in head larvae, facilitated larval evolution in Bilateria. This diverges from prevailing scenarios that propose either co-option or innovation of gene regulatory programmes to explain larva and adult origins"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05636-7#:~:text=Together%2C%20our%20findings,and%20adult%20origins

#bilateria #bilateralSymmetry #symmetry #animalEvolution #evolution #annelids #developmentalBiology #devbio #genetics #transcriptomics #epigenetics

That awkward moment when you automate your embryo image acquisition and end up with stitching artifacts and also the egg isn’t fertilized so it’s not really an embryo 🫠

#lipiddroplets #microscopy #fluorescencemicroscopy #embryos #developmentalbiology #devbio #annelids