Osedax
National Institutes of Health
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Bone-devouring Osedax worms were described over a decade ago from deep-sea whale falls. The gutless females (and in one species…
Chemosynthesis based communities are known to have been established not only in hydrocarbon seeps and/or hydrothermal vents but…
Osedax is a genus of siboglinid annelids in which the females live on dead vertebrate bones on the seafloor. These females have a…
An unusual symbiosis, first observed at ∼3000 m depth in the Monterey Submarine Canyon, involves gutless marine polychaetes of…
Striking instances of larval metamorphosis, and of adult sexual dimorphism, are not uncommon in the animal world. But especially…