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. 2025 Aug;22(8):1607-1609.
doi: 10.1038/s41592-025-02765-5.

The biofouling tubeworm Hydroides elegans

Morgan V Farrell  1 , Emily Darin  1 , Nicholas J Shikuma  2
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The biofouling tubeworm Hydroides elegans

Morgan V Farrell et al. Nat Methods. 2025 Aug.
No abstract available

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Competing interests: N.J.S. has a financial interest in Mbiotics Inc. E.D., M.V.F. and N.J.S. are co-inventors on a provisional US patent application entitled “Genetically Engineered Marine Bacteria for Biomaterial Production, Probiotic Use in Aquaculture and Marine Environmental Restoration” and assigned to San Diego State University Research Foundation.

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