Osedax: Bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5684, 2004, Pages 668-671

  Rouse, G W ^a,b   Goffredi, S K ^c   Vrijenhoek, R C ^c  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MARINE POLLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

MARINE WORMS; MOLECULAR EVIDENCE; MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE;

BONE;

ANNELID; BONE; BURROWING ORGANISM; EVOLUTION; NEW GENUS; SEAFLOOR;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BONE; DEEP SEA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENUS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OSEDAX; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHALE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BONE MARROW; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANNELIDA; CETACEA; SIBOGLINIDAE; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAWATER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; SYMBIOSIS; TERMINOLOGY; WHALES;

EID: 3442879505     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1098650     Document Type: Article

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