Word: limnoria
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...writing in regards to an article which appeared in The Crimson on May 3 announcing the "discovery" that Limnoria has no bacteria in its digestive tract. Dixie Lee Ray pointed this out in a paper entitled "Nutritional Physiology of Limnoria" which appeared in the book "Marine Boring and Fouling Organisms" edited by Ray and published in 1959. Mark Plotkin Extension...
...animals are small marine wood-borer isopod crustaceans called Limnoria spp. There is one species of terrestial wood-borer crustaceans which also has a bacteria-free digestive tract...
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