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DURING the course of an ecological investigation of the polychæte annelid Pygospio elegans Clap., a remarkable mode of asexual reproduction was noticed. The species were collected at the small island of Vorsø in the Horsensfjord (East Jutland, Denmark) and the phenomenon was first observed in April 1949.
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Thorson, G., Medd. Kommiss. Danm.'s Fiskeri og Havunders., Serie: Plankton, 4 (1946).
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RASMUSSEN, E. Asexual Reproduction in Pygospio elegans Claparède (Polychæta sedentaria). Nature 171, 1161–1162 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1711161a0
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