When whales die and sink to the sea-floor, they provide a sudden, enormous food supply to organisms in the vicinity. At first, larger mobile scavengers remove the flesh, but also when only the bones remain, the whale-fall ...

Polychaetes are a large group of segmented worms that display an enormous morphological diversity. Molecular data has shown in recent years that groups previously thought to be separate from polychaetes are actually part ...

In between the grains of sand on the ocean floor, there exists a world which few people are aware of. Representatives of almost all animal phyla can be found here. The clitellate family Enchytraeidae is in the marine ...

This thesis is about species of segmented worms that previously were placed in the genus Marionina Michaelsen, 1890, within the family Enchytraeidae, class Clitellata and phylum Annelida. These species are closely related ...

The biological diversity in the soil is much higher than most people can imagine, and a very important group of animals living there are earthworms and other clitellate worms. It has been found that several clitellate ...

Paper I. Scale-worms are segmented worms. They can be found in all marine benthic habitats, including about 1200 species and over 200 genera. There has been little known about the phylogeny of this group and this study is ...

The order Thelephorales is a widespread group of many thousands of species of ecologically important, ectomycorrhizal fungi, of which only a fraction have been described to date. Most species are corticioid (skin-like) and ...