… Here we report the first burrow casting in the deep sea, to reveal the morphology of burrow
structures in the … In situ burrow casting, as described in this study, is expected to provide …

… , including attached materials, provides important information on the ecology of the burrow …
The combined burrow casting and CT scanning method used in this study has the potential to …

… novel and useful information for understanding organism–… Burrow casting is a classical
method of observing burrow … has also been used for other deep-sea burrow casts (as shown in …

… burrowing macrofauna and their symbionts in a given ecosystem is difficult to estimate so that
having new … have been intensive sampled with the same method. Similarly, no records are …

… Here we report the first burrow casting in the deep sea, to reveal the morphology of … burrow
casting, as described in this study, is expected to provide new insights into deep-sea ecology. …

… extreme environments such as deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps [2, 3]. The ecology of these
organisms … Although casting can provide useful information even on burrows produced by large …

… sediment from intertidal habitats to the deep sea, with burrowers taking refuge to … used
quantitative sampling in the natural environment and quantitative analysis of host-burrow use …

… If burrows similar to those of this study were preserved as trace fossils, they should be assigned
to the ichnospecies … Novel use of burrow casting as a research tool in deep-sea ecology …

… straight faecal cast (white arrows). (C) Coil and tailed faecal … As general recommendations
for new names: i) burrows … Image-based surveys are often used to study the deep sea where …

… In this study, a novel method to estimate the morphology of the … Novel use of burrow casting
as a research tool in deep-sea ecology, Biology Letters, 8, 648–651, 2012 6. RJ Urick, A. …