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The Sludgeworm Tubifex

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Tubifex tubifex Müll. (Annelida, Oligochaeta) serves as a classic model in experimental and biochemical embryology. The development of this worm is an impressive example of ooplasmic segregation which occurs prior to the first cleavage as a formation of pole plasms rich in mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum [16]. Owing to the strictly determined heteroquadrant spiral cleavage, the material of these plasms is distributed over definite individual blastomeres [43, 44]. Therefore Tubifex has for a long time been used for studying the problem of the early localization of anlage, using methods such as centrifugation, blastomere isolation, and cytochemistry [12, 17, 31]. As different blastomeres may easily be identified during early cleavage, the biochemical characteristics of certain cells or groups of cells may be studied in relation to subsequent differentiation [4, 69, 70].

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Meshcheryakov, V.N. (1990). The Sludgeworm Tubifex . In: Dettlaff, T.A., Vassetzky, S.G. (eds) Animal Species for Developmental Studies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0503-3_4

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