DNA barcoding identifies a cosmopolitan diet in the ocean sunfish

The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is the world’s heaviest bony fish reaching a body mass of up to 2.3 tonnes. However, the prey M. mola consumes to fuel this prodigious growth remains poorly known. Sunfish were thought to be obligate gelatinous plankton feeders, but recent studies suggest a more general...

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Autores principales: Sousa, Lara L., Xavier, Raquel, Costa, Vânia, Humphries, Nicolas E., Trueman, Clive, Rosa, Rui, Sims, David W., Queiroz, Nuno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27373803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28762

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27373803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28762

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