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Fish mucous cocoons: the ‘mosquito nets’ of the sea
Mucus performs numerous protective functions in vertebrates, and in fishes may defend them against harmful organisms, although often the evidence is contradictory. The function of the mucous cocoons that many parrotfishes and wrasses sleep in, while long used as a classical example of antipredator b...
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| Formato: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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The Royal Society
2011
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| Acceso en liña: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3061186/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21084337 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0916 |
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