Compression tests showed that high levels of Polydora ciliata infestation tended to weaken the shells of Mytilus edulis. A predation experiment indicated that the heavily infested, weak-shelled mussels may be more vulnerable to the predatory activities of the crab, Cancer pagurus.
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R. M. L. Kent (1981) studied this question.
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