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The role of vision for navigation in the crown-of-thorns seastar, Acanthaster planci

Coral reefs all over the Indo-Pacific suffer from substantial damage caused by the crown-of-thorns seastar Acanthaster planci, a voracious predator that moves on and between reefs to seek out its coral prey. Chemoreception is thought to guide A. planci. As vision was recently introduced as another s...

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Autores principales: Sigl, Robert, Steibl, Sebastian, Laforsch, Christian
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/PMC4967868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27476750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep30834