Chitin is the primary building material both for the exoskeleton of insects and for the bristles of bristle worms such as the marine annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii. However, the bristle worms ...

“The material described herein was found during a freezer clean up: in a pudding of old ice and forgotten Eppendorf tubes, a ...

Bullish (Video) Annelid Worm Segmentation: Evolutionary Body Plan & Nerve Cord Posted: March 14, 2025 | Last updated: March 14, 2025 This film discusses the evolutionary significance of segmented ...

This new species of annelid worm was found in deep sea sediments near methane seeps off the Pacific coast of central America. Anguillosyllis have an interesting evolutionary placement within Syllidae ...

Clusters of fossil serpulid worm tubes, like these Rotularia from the British Eocene, are common fossils in many Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine rocks The Museum’s collection of fossil annelids is both ...

We study multiple species of marine annelid worms to dissect how spiral cleavage, an ancestral mode of embryogenesis, is controlled and generates phenotypic evolution. Moggioli G, Panossian B, Sun Y, ...

Acting Senior Curator in Charge for the Freeliving and Parasitic worm Collections. My main area for responsibility are the Annelid collections at the Museum. They are the segmented worms incorporating ...