A complex mode of aggressive mimicry in a scale-eating cichlid fish

Aggressive mimicry is an adaptive tactic of parasitic or predatory species that closely resemble inoffensive models in order to increase fitness via predatory gains. Although similarity of distantly related species is often intuitively implicated with mimicry, the exact mechanisms and evolutionary c...

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Published in:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Boileau, Nicolas, Cortesi, Fabio, Egger, Bernd, Muschick, Moritz, Indermaur, Adrian, Theis, Anya, Büscher, Heinz H., Salzburger, Walter
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2015
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Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614428/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26399975
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0521
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