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ALTHOUGH haemoglobin is present in numerous parasitic nematodes, it has never been recorded from a free-living form1. Even the recent demonstration of its presence in the free-living egg-laying female of Mermis subnigrescens2 scarcely affects the generalization, for Mermis is parasitic in insects for most of its life-history. However, we have now found that it is present in abundance in the purely marine form Enoplus brevis and, to a lesser extent, in E. communis.
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ELLENBY, C., SMITH, L. Haemoglobin in a Marine Nematode. Nature 210, 1372 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2101372a0
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