placed into the genus Nereis and later reassigned to the genus Platynereis. Platynereis dumerilii lives in coastal marine waters from temperate to tropical...

Platynereis is a genus of marine annelid worms that belongs to the Nereididae, a family of errant polychaete worms. The species Platynereis dumerilii...

the advantages of reducing water loss and preventing dehydration. Platynereis dumerilii, a marine polychaete worm, uses uric acid as a sexual pheromone...

use of those nerves. Another example is the trochophore larva of Platynereis dumerilii, where the larval eye was ablated and the larvae was not phototactic...

Phototaxis has been well studied in the marine ragworm Platynereis dumerilii. Both Platynereis dumerilii trochophore and its metatrochophore larvae are positively...

synchronized spawning. Another marine animal, the bristle worm Platynereis dumerilii, spawns a few days after a full moon. It contains a protein with...

insects and crustaceans, and some annelids (notably the ragworm Platynereis dumerilii). They are known to play a role in olfactory learning and memory...

panopsin was found in the ciliary photoreceptor cells of the annelid Platynereis dumerilii and is called c(iliary)-opsin. This c-opsin is UV-sensitive (λmax...

may look very different than atokes. For instance, the atokes of Platynereis dumerilii are yellowish-brown, while the female epitokes are yellow because...

gravitaxis (upward movement). Also the larvae of a polychaete, Platynereis dumerilii, combine positive phototaxis (movement to the light coming from...