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The blastopore of bryozoan embryos

This is a bryozoan embryo exhibiting its blastopore. These animals are discreet but ubiquitous in oceans and lakes all over the world. What we see is the DNA inside the nucleus of the cells of the embryo. The color gradient indicates if the nuclei are closer (yellow) or further away (purple) from the microscope camera. […]

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Understanding the evolution of cleavage patterns in early embryonic development

Video summary about our work on bryozoan development and the evolution of cleavage patterns published in BMC Biology!

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Bryozoan cell lineage

What happens when cleavage patterns evolve? Some insights from bryozoan embryonic development: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0371-9

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Bryozoan embryos viewed from the animal and vegetal poles

The first 24 hours in 1.5 minutes of bryozoan embryos.

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Bryozoan embryos viewed from the animal pole

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Bryozoan life cycle

The BEST footage of bryozoan life cycle on the internet. Meet the coronate larva of Bugula neritina. Wow!

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Cyphonautes day

The name cyphonautes was created by Ehrenberg (1834), who first saw the tiny creature on Nov. 25, 1832 (Hyman 1959).

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Classic drawing of a cyphonautes larva

Elegant schematic drawing of a bryozoan cyphonautes larva from 1907 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10304879#page/324/mode/1up Thanks to @BioDivLibrary. Made me smile :)

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Living cyphonautes larva

After the illustration, this is a living cyphonautes larva collected from the plankton.

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New bryozoan species from Brazil

Twelve new bryozoan species from Brazil (Vieira et al. 2014) with videos hosted on the Cifonauta database. Check out some of these images here.