A Worm that Broke a Billion-Year Rule

This is the story of an absolute rule breaker in the history of animal evolution, where a billion year old pact has been broken by a little tiny worm. Hydroides elegans lives in a hard calcified tube and attaches itself to ships and all kind of submerged man-made […]

A new paper on Christmas tree worms from the Persian Gulf and the possible first case of heteroplasmy in Annelida

In pre-Covid times, Samaneh Pazoki has visited our lab for 6 months from Iran as part of her PhD. In the meantime, she has successfully defended her PhD and we could already publish a second paper as part of her stay her. She is interested in Serpulidae from […]