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Fig. 4. Behavior of `wild', untreated laboratory-grown tubes and EDTA-treated
laboratory-grown tubes subjected to compression. Inset shows SEM image of a
piece of hybrid tube showing the original wild tube (right) extended with
commercial acid-washed sand (left) by the resident worm. The table shows
statistical results of the peak load ratio between different treatments.