Dear All,
First of all thanks a lot for the many replies I got concerning my question
regarding sensory structures in Nereidae. It seems that the consensus is
that they are indeed a mixture between mechano- and chemoreceptors.
However, it seems still to be an area where more research would be
welcome...
Anyway I have another question. I want to be able to tra ck the motion of
individual segments during the locomotion of errant polychaetes. The
obvious way seem to mark the segment with some kind of paint or other
markers. However, so far I have tried regular paint and correction liquid
(both of them probably harmful to the worm, but that will probably be
difficult to find something that does not dissolve in water and is harmless),
but both markers had disappeared once the worms recovered from the
anaesthetisation (since I only want to mark one segment I think it is
necessary to immobilise the worms first). Have any of you any positive
experience with marking worms that live in marine or aquatic
environments?
Thanks again,
Thomas
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Thomas Hesselberg
Centre for Biomimetic and Natural Technologies
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Bath, BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0) 1225384389
E-mail T.Hesselberg at bath.ac.uk
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