Fig. 1.

Single-cell transcriptomics of Platynereis 48 hpf larvae. Cells of the 48 hpf larvae were dissociated and randomly selected for single-cell RNA-sequencing using the Fluidigm C1 Single-cell AutoPrep system. Combining sparse clustering with spatial positioning of single cells allows the identification of robust cell groups within the data. The clustering approach enables identification of genes that characterize each cell type. Finally, we used hierarchical clustering to investigate the similarity between the identified cell clusters.