Biology
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Platynereis dumerilii inbred laboratory strains believed originally collected from inshore near Naples, Italy are used as a model organism in research on genetics, molecular biology, and evolutionary and developmental biology.
Zantke, J.; Bannister, S.; Rajan, V. B. V.; Raible, F.; Tessmar-Raible, K. (2014). Genetic and Genomic Tools for the Marine Annelid Platynereis dumerilii. Genetics. 197(1): 19-31.
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Distribution
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Also distributed in Australia in Kalk (1958). Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). All other seas, perhaps maybe not Arctic seas (Fishelson and Rullier, 1969).
Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix.
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