Reposted by Conrad Helm
🎉Our paper on #Veneriserva, a fascinating endoparasitic polychaete with unique adaptations, is now published and OpenAccess. Hope you enjoy the read! 🌊🐭
🔗🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com
Hardly Venus’s servant—morphological adaptations of Veneriserva to an endoparasitic lifestyle an...
Endoparasitic annelids living inside another annelid host are known, particularly with regard to Oenonidae, but in general are poorly studied. The dorvilleid Veneriserva pygoclava is known from southe...
