How Mouthbrooding Cichlid Fish Have Learned to Outwit Parasitic Cuckoo Catfish (8 of 8) (IMAGE)

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How Mouthbrooding Cichlid Fish Have Learned to Outwit Parasitic Cuckoo Catfish (8 of 8)

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One-week-old cuckoo catfish, growing rapidly when feeding on host offspring. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 02 May 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Blažek at Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Brno, Czech Republic, and colleagues was titled, "Success of cuckoo catfish brood parasitism reflects coevolutionary history and individual experience of their cichlid hosts."

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[Credit: Wenjing Yi]

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