Zebrafish "schreckstoff" identified (IMAGE)

RIKEN

Zebrafish "schreckstoff" identified

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After over 85 years, we finally know that the alarm substance that allows most fish to react to injured shoal-mates is a two-part signal: one part species-specific (conspecific social signal) and one part superorder-specific (danger signal).

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