From: Temporal variation and lack of host specificity among bacterial endosymbionts of Osedax bone worms (Polychaeta: Siboglinidae)
Number Osedax examined
Date
Dive no.*
Days†
Whale bone
Cow bone
20-Mar-06
0
deployed
23-May-06
T990
64
9
24-Oct-06
T1048
218
24
10-Jan-07
T1071
296
21
15-Aug-07
T1119
513
22
14
18-Dec-07
T1163
638
20
10-Mar-09
DR12
1086
27
6