On the role of bone-eating worms in the degradation of marine vertebrate remains

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-09-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2008.0177PMID 18505721PMCID PMC2596369
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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