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Bone-eating Osedax females and their 'harems' of dwarf males are recruited from a common larval pool.

Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2008

Vrijenhoek R C, Johnson S B, Rouse G W

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Extreme male dwarfism occurs in Osedax (Annelida: Siboglinidae), marine worms with sessile females that bore into submerged bones. Osedax are hypothesized to use environmental sex determination, in which undifferentiated larvae that settle on bones develop as females, and subsequent larvae that s...

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PMID: 18986498
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03937.x

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