Bone-boring worms: Characterizing the morphology, rate, and method of Bioerosion by Osedax mucofloris (Annelida, Siboglinidae)

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 221, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 307-316

  Higgs, Nicholas D ^a,b   Glover, Adrian G ^b   Dahlgren, Thomas G ^c   LITTLE, CRISPIN T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; BONE; BORING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; MUCUS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEAFLOOR; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACE FOSSIL; WHALE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 83755195270     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/BBLv221n3p307     Document Type: Article

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