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Article: Sulfide searchers. (larvae attracted to sulfides)
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- Science News
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- February 16, 1985
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Even in the most lush marine environments, all it takes is a few bad elements like sulfur and the whole neighborhood goes down the tubes. Every ecologist knows that sulfides are deadly to most living things.
But now it appears that at least one hardy species of marine worm not only seeks out and survives in sulfide-rich, oxygen-poor locales but also performs a kind of urban renewal by creating tubes that carry sulfide-neutralizing oxygen into the sediments. M. Carmela Cuomo, a geologist and benthic (seafloor) ecologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has discovered that larvae of this centimeter-long shallow-water worm of the Capitella genus ...
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