#scale worm

[aquatic-dusk]

cruise day on the r/v coral sea!! box corer brought up some very… amusing little creatures along with a delicious helping of sediment (i stg this is not nsfw it is a fat innkeeper worm look it up)

@snakest1cks

[mariathepolynoid]

Eulagisca gigantea (the sea hedgehog)

This is my species

but i anthropomorphisized them into this

i wanted a character in the style off Cream the Rabbit from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

this A.I. generated version did a good job at matching my character's coloring.

I love it. It's just how i imagined it.

Guys The bitch is back

[greenfrog04]

Genomic analysis of a scale worm provides insights into its adaptation to deep-sea hydrothermal vents 

Published 4th July 2023

A study investigating the molecular adaptations of the scale worm Branchipolynoe longqiensis to an extreme environment using genome sequencing.

Image of Branchipolynoe longqiensis and graph of mean GC content,sequencing coverage and NCBI species hit of the genomic assembly.

Results show Branchipolynoe longqiensis has increased usage of the positively charged histidine and decreased the use of the negatively charged aspartic acid and glutamic acid.

The genome size of Branchipolynoe longqiensis is also larger than two other shallow water polynoids (H. impar and L. clava).

Genome assembly with Hi-C data on the three polynoid scale worms revealed 18 chromosomes for all three species investigated. However, a macro-synteny analysis revealed two inter-chromosomal rearrangements were found between Branchipolynoe longqiensis and the two genomes.

High hydrostatic pressure can change the organization and structure of various cytoskeleton proteins, including microtubules. The enrichment of genes related tomicrotubules in Branchipolynoe longqiensis may benefit its environmental adaptation to the high hydrostatic pressure in the deep-sea vent habitats. The expansion of “synaptic vesicleexocytosis” related gene family may be linked to novel cell-supporters found in the nervous system of vent scale worms.

Among the gene families expanded in Branchipolynoe longqiensis, the copy number of extracellular single-domain hemoglobin was increased compared to the two shallow-water polynoids. In addition, the tetra-domain hemoglobin was discovered in the Branchipolynoe longqiensis genome, which is consistent with that in the other two deep-sea scale worms Branchipolynoe symmytilida and Branchipolynoe seepensis.

In the Branchipolynoe longqiensis genome, a tetra-domain hemoglobin was found in close proximity to an single-domain hemoglobin. The close location, as well as the phylogenetic position of these two hemoglobins, suggest that this tetra-domain hemoglobin could have been derived from the duplication of BlonSD5.

The tetra-domain hemoglobin is common in the Branchipolynoe genus and could be an adaption to the hypoxic environment in the vent fields or the mantle cavity of bathymodioline mussels. None of the three polynoid genomes contains genes encoding hemerythrin, a non-heme protein that can also bind oxygen used by many annelids, indicating that hemoglobin indeed plays a major role in oxygen binding in these scale worms.

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[backjustforberena]

I wonder if any of them knew it was all for her.

[dinoserious]

i don’t know if you take requests or not, but if you do i would love to see a tomato horn worm in your style! if not, thanks u anyways and i love ur art! always so awesome seeing funky bugs on my dash

i dont typically do requests, but ive had this ask sitting around for a bit AND its for a bug, so i finally thought it might be fun to do a lil somethin. heres your guys o7

[gengarenjoyer23]

Some of the most annoying worm fans are the ones who are so poisoned by power scaling nonsense that their only criticisms are nitpicks like "Jack not being able to lose to parahumans is bullshit" or "Lung gets worfed because he always loses to Taylor how is only X level"

They forget that these elements are in here for narrative reasons and not so you can put these characters on a fake Tier list and argue with strangers on r/Whowouldwin.

Jack not losing to parahumans challenges many the characters notions about treating regular humans as an after thought and shows that maybe powers are not the best solution for every situation.

This same thing applies basically any superhero or action story.

[smallerdelusions]

Smaugust, Week 3: Hybrid/Glow/Fish/Fluffy

[boag]

This picture is so fucking unreasonably funny to me like I just see this and hear Archie in my head like “Hey . Yeah all my friends here asked for NO ONIONS on their burgers”

[queer-ecopunk]

Would you still love me if I was a worm?

[lizardinkart]

Lung— the most Man of all time 👀💕

My other contribution to the Miss Tumblr Sexyman 2023: Worm Edition tournament, hosted by the spectacular, show-stopping @brocktonbay !

Lung is one of my favorite characters and designs ever, so I’m real sad he didn’t win his section, but I’m still disgustingly proud of him so he gets to be posted on his own! I mean who else can get emasculated by bugs in the first arc of a story and then bounce back from that??? What a king!!

[solarpunkani]

Okay but wait actually

How long does a seed bomb stay viable after you make it?

I know a lot of the recipes for them call for water--or at least for wet clay/compost. If that gets the seeds wet in the process of making them, about how long do you have before the seed bombs become unusable (like because the seed started trying to germinate but couldn't get water?)

Like. My usual method of guerrilla gardening is 'bag of seeds I carry in my purse and yeet whenever feels right', which works if you're on a walk or something, but becomes significantly less efficient when you're in a car going at like 60 miles per hour and your target is at least 10 feet away from the far right lane of traffic.

I wanna get a general idea of how long I have to use a seed bomb after I make it. Is it a 'go out immediately' kinda deal, or do I have some time? If the seed gets wet once and then doesn't again for awhile, is there a germination risk or no? Does it depend on the seed?

[bug4932]

are you aware that your amv music taste is like a plague that infects every playlist with which it comes into contact? don't you feel any remorse?

IVE KILLED BEFORE AND I WILL KILL AGAIN

[wordsofwilderness]

Print tests for my Wames bind

I might've gotten ever so slightly distracted by a knitting a sweater. But now that project is done, so I'm back with more book binding! Today I did the print tests, first on your bog standard printer paper to test there wasn't a problem with the typeset (like low quality pictures), then on the nice, fancy, thick stuff:

Fic: Worm James (aka “Wames”) by @thebibutterflyao3

[tojisun]

mmm size difference <33

[chiropteracupola]

sudden realization that I can just. Buy plastic armature by the foot. okay I'm going to go mad with power now.

[tipsy-scales]

I prefer daylight but it’s good to play with different lighting & darker colors~