Fossil traces of the bone-eating worm Osedax in early Oligocene whale bones

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 8656-8659

  Kiel, Steffen ^a   Goedert, James L ^b   Kahl, Wolf Achim ^a   Rouse, Greg W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annelids; Deep sea; Fossil record; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FOOD; FOSSIL; GEOLOGICAL TIME; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCENE; OSEDAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WHALE; WORM;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; HELMINTHS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ORGAN SIZE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WASHINGTON; WHALES;

ANNELIDA; CETACEA; OSEDAX; REPTILIA; SIBOGLINIDAE;

EID: 77952715362     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002014107     Document Type: Article

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