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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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Main Authors: Grutter, Alexandra S., Rumney, Jennifer G., Sinclair-Taylor, Tane, Waldie, Peter, Franklin, Craig E.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 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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