This database (2nd Edition 1997) contains about 17500 references of the last 300 years on polychaete annelids. It is a searchable version of a downloadable file. For more details on the database and download, visit Annelid Resources. [Information of the supplier]
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Welcome to the internet resources for scientific research of the nereidid polychaete Platynereis dumerilii. This site is a comprehensive database containing the basic information on breeding, development, anatomy of various stages, gene expression patterns, as well as the relevant literature. Regular updates will be made by integrating recent research data. ... [Information of the supplier]
Sipuncula are marine invertebrate worms, commonly known as peanut worms or star worms, comprising around 151 recognized species. They are widely distributed throughout the world's oceans from intertidal tropical to cold deep-water habitats. These little-known marine invertebrates are inconspicuous, and often confused with holothurians, echiurans or nemerteans and easily overlooked by inexperienced observers. However sipunculans have few, but peculiar characteristics that separate them easily from the other groups. As infaunal animals, burrowed in sediment or hidden within coral ruble or empty gastropod shells, they are not readily observed or collected. As with species of many other minor phyla, species descriptions of sipunculans in the older literature often consist of a short paragraph with poor, if any, illustration and many references are not easily accessible. Moreover, there are about five active researchers in the world with systematic expertise in this group. The lack of specialists and the difficulty of access to the specific references, make the identification of these worms a challenge. With this website we would like to make available scientific knowledge to an audience interested in this little-known marine invertebrate offering descriptions, images and links to relevant literature. ... [Information of the supplier]
Polychaeta of the Southern Ocean LifeDesk records the biodiversity and taxonomy of Antarctic and Subantarctic polychaetes (Annelida: Polychaeta). The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica hosts a diverse polychaete fauna. The first benthic samples of polychaetes were taken on the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. Ross reached the sea that bears his name in 1841. Many expeditions from many nations have visited Antarctic seas since, and over 700 named species have been recorded for Antarctica’s shelf, slope and deep-sea benthos, mainly from the Ross Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula / Weddell Sea areas. Given this effort over the years the circum Antarctic region has been sampled repeatedly in some places. However, new samples taken on board research vessels continue to yield new, unknown species, and there are large extents of ocean where little sampling has been done. The 551 accepted species names in the classification tree are from the Antarctic seas taxa list of WoRMS. ... [Information of the supplier]
Earthworms are essential to the life and health of the planet's soils, and thus to the life and health of terrestrial ecosystems. Charles Darwin and others have shown that earthworms both make soil, and ensure its fertility. Lumbricus rubellus is a common earthworm, found in many temperate ecosystems, used as a model species by researchers investigating the biology and ecology of the soil, and the effects of pollutants and other chemicals on soil organisms. This website is the home of our efforts to better understand how Lumbricus rubellus and other soil animals "make their living". We are sequencing the genome of Lumbricus rubellus. This will be the first oligochaete annelid genome to be sequenced. The genome sequence will reveal the 'parts list' for this important species, and help us to put together maps of how the worm grows, eats, and reproduces, and how it resists exposures to potentially toxic soil contamination. To do this we are using the resources, instrumentation and expertise of the GenePool, the University of Edinburgh Genomics Facility. The genome sequencing project builds on the successful Lumbricus rubellus Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) transcriptome project. ESTs are a way of sampling the expressed genes of a species, and we, as part of The EcoWorm Consortium gained funding from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) generate of over 20,000 ESTs. Using a combination of informatics tools these sequences have been analysed and used to build a relational sequence database - LumbriBASE - that can be queried by both sequence similarity and annotation. We have added ESTs from additional annelid species to LumbriBASE to make cross-comparison between species easier. ... [Information of the supplier]
Welcome to the 11th International Polychaete Conference being held in Sydney, Australia in 2013. The conference will be held at the Australian Museum, commencing on the afternoon of Sunday 4th August through to Friday 9th August 2013. The Organising committee is soliciting images from previous meetings which we will play during the opening Ice Breaker and Conference Dinner. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 11th International Symposium on Enchytraeidae (ISE) will take place at "Haus Ohrbeck" in Georgsmarienhütte near Osnabrück, Germany, July 25-27, 2014. Enchytraeids or 'potworms' are small relatives of earthworms distributed worldwide. Most of the species are soil-dwelling but some live in aquatic sediments. The symposium has a traditional focus on taxonomy and applied soil ecology, but actually it covers all aspects of the biology of enchytraeids, including developmental biology, physiology, phylogeny, and ecotoxicology. The symposium intends to be an occasion to share and to discuss new findings and views about these interesting worms while promoting a friendly interaction among experts, newcomers, or any other kind of participant. The symposia are held every two years since 1994 and they include talks, posters, and a taxonomic workshop. A peer-reviewed Proceedings volume, the "Newsletter on Enchytraeidae" is published usually within less than one year. Further information on abstract submission, travel, room & board, and programme will be sent around shortly. You may submit suggestions regarding topics, schedule and focus any time. ... [Information of the supplier]
Polytraits is a database on biological traits of polychaetes (bristle worms, Polychaeta: Annelida). It covers information about morphological, behavioural, reproductive and larval characteristics of polychaete taxa which has been collected from the literature. The project was initially started as an in-house project of the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research but since then the database has been continuously expanded to provide data for other analyses as well. ... [Information of the supplier]
We invite you to participate in the 13th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta - ISAO 2015, which will convene at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic, 7-11 September 2015. At this university the great oligochaetologist Sergěj Hrabě conducted his remarkable work on Oligochaeta.
