A remarkable diversity of bone-eating worms (<it>Osedax</it>; Siboglinidae; Annelida)
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Bone-eating <it>Osedax </it>worms have proved to be surprisingly diverse and widespread. Including the initial description of this genus in 2004, five species that live at depths between 25 and 3,000 m in the eastern and...
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Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-11-01
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Series: | BMC Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/7/74 |