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Annelida

• Introduction
  Research - Support and information links for people who already know something about annelids
  Taxonomy - General background links and links to classification of various groups.
  Field Trips - These "field trips" link you to annelid-related information and people around the world.
• Polychaete Researchers Online - (PRO) is a directory of addresses and research interests
• What's New? - The new information and feature to be found on this site.
• ANNELIDA-L - a listserve for discussions of all things related to annelid worms. This link includes a searchable index of the lists discussion.
• Meetings - A list of information on past, present and future meetings regarding annelids.
• Bibliography - An exhaustive collection of literature. Ward and Fauchald's database (2nd edition, 1997) is a must for anyone studying polychaetes!
• Faunal Lists - Lists of polychaete species from locations worldwide.
• Phylogeny of the Annelida and their Allies - "The status of members of Phylum Annelida and related phyla has been under scrutiny. Membership of Annelida has varied since its inception as a group emerging from the Vermes in the early 19th century. In recent times the general view is that it contains polychaetes and the clitellate oligochaetes and leeches, usually as three classes, or latterly with the clitellates as one class or sub-phylum. But we may wonder if the many and diverse polychaete families are a monophyletic group or a miscellaneous hodge-podge? Are the oligochaetes just a small part of the polychaetes? Should the category 'polychaete' be used at all? Can it be defined? What about other worms with setae? Should the vestimentiferans and pogonophorans be sister phyla or included in the polychaetes? What about the echiurans? And what are the major groupings of the protostomes?" (Read, 2000)

Introduction

Annelida

• Publication list for Sessile Organisms and Marine Fouling

People Working on Worms (among other things)

• Torkild Bakken - Nereididae and Sphaerodoridae.
• Dr. Thomas Bartolomaeus - Comparative ultrastructural and developmental studies of the body cavities and nephridia in Metazoa, excluding Deuterostomia. Phylogeny of the Spiralia. Ultrastructure of larval photoreceptors in Annelida. Morphogenesis of annelid setae and studies on the phylogeny of the Annelida.
• Dr. M. Nechama Ben-Eliahu - Community ecology. Levant biogeography, with particular attention to process of Lessepsian migration in Polychaeta, e.g., monitoring the progressive extension of ranges of migrant taxa in the Levant Basin, and the consequences for the indigenous biota. Polychaeta of the Levant Basin, Suez Canal and Red Sea, but particular interest in the two families with the most Lessepsian migrants, Serpulidae and Nereididae. The eastern Mediterranean deep polychaete fauna. Presently working on Red Sea Serpulidae.
• Dr. Edward B. Cutler - Systematics, zoogeography, and evolution of the Sipuncula. Recently begun to work with the Echiura with a goal of trying to understand and clarify their systematics and phylogeny.
• Dr. Thomas Dahlgren - Phylogeny estimates of Chrysopetalidae (Polychaeta) by means of analyses of morphological and molecular characters.Polychaets in the high Arctic.
• Dr. Danny Eibye-Jacobsen - Taxonomic and systematic studies on various groups of polychaetous annelids, primarily members of the families Phyllodocidae, Dorvilleidae, and Spionidae. Phylogenetic and ultrastructural studies, primarily on Phyllodocidae, Dorvilleidae, Nerillidae, and Spionidae. Taxonomic studies on polychaetous annelids from Arctic Canada, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Thailand.
• Dr. Judy Grassle - Marine benthic ecology; Larval dispersal and population genetics of marine invertebrates; Biology of Capitella sibling species
• Dr. J. Frederick Grassle - Relationship of sediment transport processes to benthic community structure; Measurement of biodiversity especially in the deep sea; Interdisciplinary studies of benthic ecosystems; Ecology
• Dr. Torleif Holthe  - Polychaete taxonomy, especially in the order Terebellida, marine biogeography.
  THE POLYCHAETA TEREBELLIDA Homepage
• Dr. Harry ten Hove - Current Projects: revision of Hydroides, phylogeny of Spiraserpula, revision of Filogranella, Red Sea serpulidae,  serpulids from cold seep and hydrothermal environments, New Zealand serpulidae, planning an electronic key/database (CD-ROM) of fouling serpulidae with ETI, the Expert center for Taxonomic Identification of the University of Amsterdam.
• Dr. Jørgen B. Kirkegaard - Polychaete worms, deep-sea fauna.
• Dr. Jerry D. Kudenov - Invertebrate zoology, marine biology, evolutionary systematics of Amphinomida (Polychaeta) from world areas, the feeding ecology of polychaetes, and the faunistics of Alaska polychaetes.
• Dr. Daniel Martin - Biology, Ecology and Taxonomy of Macroinfaunal Marine Invertebrates, with special regards to the Annelid Polychaetes.
• Dr. Galena-Vantsetti Murina - Sipuncula, Echiura (systematics, ecology and distribution), Decapoda (systematics, biogeographia) (look on my site about Guinean Crabs), Turbellaria (biology, ecology), meroplankton (pelagic larvae of bottom invertebrates) of the Black and Mediterranean Seas (systematics, season dynamics, distribution).
• Dr. Mary E. Petersen - Systematics, taxonomy, biogeography and biology of marine polychaete worms, especially the families Pholoidae, Chaetopteridae, Cirratulidae and Fauveliopsidae.
• Dr. Greg Rouse - Evolution of reproduction in marine metazoa, methods for phylogenetic
  reconstruction, and ending the use of the Linnean system of nomenclature. Papers and Data by Greg Rouse and collaborators.
• Dr. Alexander Rzhavsky - Spirorbidae

Fun Stuff

• MicroAngela's SEM Page -Explore familiar and unexpected views of the microscopic world with these colorized images from electron microscopes at the University of Hawaii.
• Photonic Engineering by the Sea Mouse (Aphrodita)
• BIODIDAC a useful repository of free biological images
• Wendell's Worm World - Discovery.com has a kid-friendly site to tach them about the role of earthworms in nature.
• Hydrothermal Vent Habitats
  Ocean Planet (Smithsonian) - great gateway to all things deep sea.
  Extreme 2000 Expedition (Univ. of Delaware) - Fun and visual tour through this deep ocean trek.
  Ocean AdVENTure - Travel with them to hydrothermal vents in the sunless depths of the world's oceans.
  ALVIN - Office of Naval Research-research submersible operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
• Cold Seep Habitats
  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - What are they? and Table of Contents
  Penn State University's "Life without Light" - A tour through the Cold-seep Habitats in the Gulf of Mexico
  "Ice Worms" from the Gulf of Mexico
  Lair of the "Ice Worm"
  Gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico
  Reefs of the Gulf of Mexico
• Deep-Sea Pages 1, 2, 3
• Marine Biology compiled by wormlab emeritus, Sean Kinane.
• More Marine Biological and Oceanographic Links

• Institute for Behavioral Genetics, U. Colorado, Johnson Lab,  C. elegans site
• C. elegans Genome Project
• C. elegans Network - A huge hub for all things C. elegans.
  Strome Lab - Indiana University