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Osedax borings in fossil marine bird bones

The bone-eating marine annelid Osedax consumes mainly whale bones on the deep-sea floor, but recent colonization experiments with cow bones and molecular age estimates suggesting a possible Cretaceous origin of Osedax indicate that this worm might be able grow on a wider range of substrates. The sug...

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Main Authors: Kiel, Steffen, Kahl, Wolf-Achim, Goedert, James L.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018246/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21103978
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-010-0740-5
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