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Stylet elemental analysis - new publications

Posted by stuffysour on 16 Nov 2008 at 14:23 GMT

(hard structures in the mantle muscle) to assess longevity of wild octopuses are improving, but are rarely validated [but see 9] and require that the animal be sacrificed.
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0003732#article1.body1.sec1.p1

Authors/readers may be interested in the following, recently published studies by Doubleday et al:
http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2008/360/m360p125.pdf
and http://www.int-res.com/prepress/m07722.html