Opened lobster with hairworm (IMAGE)

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Opened lobster with hairworm

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Staged photo of the (dead) squat lobster host Munida sp., from Norway, with a marine hairworm. The carapace of the lobster was opened to show the space where the worm was found. The photo was taken now as a representation of the real scenario of how the worm was collected years ago, which was used for the genome sequencing.

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Martin Sørensen

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