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Bone-Eating Worms Spread: Insights into Shallow-Water Osedax (Annelida, Siboglinidae) from Antarctic, Subantarctic, and Mediterranean Waters
Osedax, commonly known as bone-eating worms, are unusual marine annelids belonging to Siboglinidae and represent a remarkable example of evolutionary adaptation to a specialized habitat, namely sunken vertebrate bones. Usually, females of these animals live anchored inside bone owing to a ramified r...
Autores principales: | Taboada, Sergi, Riesgo, Ana, Bas, Maria, Arnedo, Miquel A., Cristobo, Javier, Rouse, Greg W., Avila, Conxita |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26581105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140341 |
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