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Citation title: "Osedax: Bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males".

This study was previously identified under the legacy study ID S1135 (Status: Published).

Citation

Rouse G., Goffredi S., & Vrijenhoek R. 2004. Osedax: Bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. Science, 305: 668-671.

Authors

• Rouse G.
• Goffredi S.
• Vrijenhoek R.

Abstract

We describe a new genus, Osedax, and two new species of annelids with females that consume the bones of dead whales via ramifying roots. Molecular and morphological evidence revealed that Osedax belongs to the Siboglinidae, which includes pogonophoran and vestimentiferan worms from deep-sea vents, seeps, and anoxic basins. Osedax has skewed sex ratios with numerous dwarf (paedomorphic) males that live in the tubes of females. DNA sequences reveal that the two Osedax species diverged about 42 million years ago and currently maintain large populations ranging from 105 to 106 adult females.

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• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S1222
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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref17278,
  	 author = {G. W.  Rouse and Shana K  Goffredi and Robert C.  Vrijenhoek},
  	 title = {Osedax: Bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males},
  	 year = {2004},
  	 keywords = {},
  	 doi = {},
  	 url = {},
  	 pmid = {},
  	 journal = {Science},
  	 volume = {305},
  	 number = {},
  	 pages = {668--671},
  	 abstract = {We describe a new genus, Osedax, and two new species of annelids with females that consume the bones of dead whales via ramifying roots. Molecular and morphological evidence revealed that Osedax belongs to the Siboglinidae, which includes pogonophoran and vestimentiferan worms from deep-sea vents, seeps, and anoxic basins. Osedax has skewed sex ratios with numerous dwarf (paedomorphic) males that live in the tubes of females. DNA sequences reveal that the two Osedax species diverged about 42 million years ago and currently maintain large populations ranging from 105 to 106 adult females.}
  }
  		

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  		TY  - JOUR
  ID  - 17278
  AU  - Rouse,G. W. 
  AU  - Goffredi,Shana K 
  AU  - Vrijenhoek,Robert C. 
  T1  - Osedax: Bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males
  PY  - 2004
  UR  - 
  N2  - We describe a new genus, Osedax, and two new species of annelids with females that consume the bones of dead whales via ramifying roots. Molecular and morphological evidence revealed that Osedax belongs to the Siboglinidae, which includes pogonophoran and vestimentiferan worms from deep-sea vents, seeps, and anoxic basins. Osedax has skewed sex ratios with numerous dwarf (paedomorphic) males that live in the tubes of females. DNA sequences reveal that the two Osedax species diverged about 42 million years ago and currently maintain large populations ranging from 105 to 106 adult females.
  L3  - 
  JF  - Science
  VL  - 305
  IS  - 
  SP  - 668
  EP  - 671
  ER  -