image: This is an adult Hydroides elegans tubeworm out of tube. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 9 Jan., 2014, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Nicholas J. Shikuma at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Marine Tubeworm Metamorphosis Induced by Arrays of Bacterial Phage Tail-Like Structures." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Brian Nedved]