Deep-Sea, Swimming Worms with Luminescent “Bombs”
- 21 August 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 325 (5943), 964
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1172488
Abstract
Several species of deep-sea polychaete worms have been discovered that have a bizarre predator distraction mechanism.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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