Genetic mechanisms of bone digestion and nutrient absorption in the bone-eating worm Osedax japonicus inferred from transcriptome and gene expression analyses

BACKGROUND: Bone-eating worms of the genus Osedax (Annelida, Siboglinidae) have adapted to whale fall environments by acquiring a novel characteristic called the root, which branches and penetrates into sunken bones. The worms lack a digestive tract and mouth opening, and it has been suggested that...

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Autores principales: Miyamoto, Norio, Yoshida, Masa-aki, Koga, Hiroyuki, Fujiwara, Yoshihiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28086748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0844-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28086748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0844-4

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