The normal development of Platynereis dumerilii (Nereididae, Annelida)

Platynereis dumerilii

A quick guide into the new model annelid Platynereis.

2D Tracking the Nuptial Dance of Platynereis Dumerilii Worms

Genetic and Genomic Tools for the Marine Annelid Platynereis dumerilii

The bristle worm Platynereis dumerilii displays many interesting biological characteristics. These include its reproductive timing, which is synchronized to the moon phase, its regenerative capacity that is hormonally controlled, and a slow rate of evolution, which permits analyses of ancestral genes and cell types. As a marine annelid, Platynereis is also representative of the marine ecosystem...

2D tracking of Platynereis dumerilii worms during spawning

Platynereis dumerilii are marine worms that reproduce by external fertilisation and exhibit particular swimming behaviours during spawning. In this paper we propose a novel worm tracking approach that enables the 2D tracking and feature extraction during the spawning process of these worms. The gathered data will be used in the future to characterise and compare male and female spawning behavio...

Fluorescent two-color whole mount in situ hybridization in Platynereis dumerilii (Polychaeta, Annelida), an emerging marine molecular model for evolution and development.

Antisense RNA probes were synthesized by in vitro transcription incubating 1 μg linearized plasmid, 2 μL 100 mM dithiothreitol (DTT), 1.3 μL NTP mixture (15.4 mM each ATP, CTP, GTP, and 10 mM UTP), 0.7 μL 10 mM digoxigenin-UTP or fluorescein-UTP (Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, IN, USA), and 0.5 μL RNAguardTM (Amersham Biosciences, Piscataway, NJ, USA), 2 μL 10× transcription buffer, 1 μL ...