Bone-Eating Worms Spread: insights into Shallow-Water Osedax (Annelida, Siboglinidae) from Antarctic, Subantarctic, and Mediterranean Waters

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Taboada, Sergi, Riesgo, Ana, Bas López, Maria, Arnedo, Miquel A., Cristobo, Javier, Rouse, Greg W., Avila, Conxita
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library Of Science
• Subjects: OSEDAX; ANTARCTICA; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; GAMMA PROTEOBACTERIA; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Pacific; Deception Island; South Georgia Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/8662

Osedax, commonly known as bone-eating worms, are unusual marine annelids belonging to Siboglinidae and represent a remarkable example of evolutionary adaptation to a special- ized habitat, namely sunken vertebrate bones. Usually, females of these animals live anchored inside bone owing to a ramified...