Deep-Sea, Swimming Worms with Luminescent 'Bombs'

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5943, 2009, Pages 964-

  Osborn, Karen J ^a   Haddock, Steven H D ^b   Pleijel, Fredrik ^c   Madin, Laurence P ^d   Rouse, Greg W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAFLOOR; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; DEEP SEA; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; GENUS; HEMOLYMPH; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARAPHYLY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PELAGIC ZONE; POLYCHAETA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYCHAETA; SEAWATER; SWIMMING;

EID: 69249121237     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172488     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Materials and methods are available as supporting material on Science Online.
2. K. J. Osborn, G. W. Rouse, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 49, 386 (2008).
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5. Research supported by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, WHOI, and the National Geographic Society. All GenBank and voucher accession numbers are listed in table S1.