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Mouth asymmetry in the textbook example of scale-eating cichlid fish is not a discrete dimorphism after all

Individuals of the scale-eating cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis, from Lake Tanganyika tend to have remarkably asymmetric heads that are either left-bending or right-bending. The ‘left’ morph opens its mouth markedly towards the left and preferentially feeds on the scales from the right-hand side...

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Main Authors: Kusche, Henrik, Lee, Hyuk Je, Meyer, Axel
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: The Royal Society 2012
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497103/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23055070
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2082
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