Detlev Arendt
Group Leader, Senior Scientist and Academic Mentor Postdoctoral Training
EditDetermining hotspots of cellular adaptation in Platynereis dumerilii.
Cosmopolitan organisms possess the ability to easily adapt to new conditions and habitats. The molecular changes orchestrating the adaptation and microevolution of particular cell types and tissues to changing conditions as in times of global warming are, however, poorly understood.
Our goal is to identify cell types that are prone to environment-driven change for the cosmopolitan marine worm Platynereis dumerilii. We are currently sampling different P. dumerilii populations across European coastal sites to unveil transcriptomic differences within different cell types.
So far, we have sampled populations from Sweden, France and Spain which provide first insights into abundance changes for certain cell types and site-specific gene expression patterns.
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