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Scorpionfish rapidly change colour in response to their background

BACKGROUND: To facilitate background matching in heterogenous environments, some animals rapidly change body colouration. Marine predatory fishes might use this ability to hide from predators and prey. Here, we focus on scorpionfishes (Scorpaenidae), well-camouflaged, bottom-dwelling sit-and-wait pr...

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Autores principales: John, Leonie, Santon, Matteo, Michiels, Nico K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9983180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36864453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-023-00488-x

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