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SUBMITTER: Boileau N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4614428 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boileau Nicolas N Cortesi Fabio F Egger Bernd B Muschick Moritz M Indermaur Adrian A Theis Anya A Büscher Heinz H HH Salzburger Walter W
Biology letters 20150901 9
Aggressive mimicry is an adaptive tactic of parasitic or predatory species that closely resemble inoffensive models in order to increase fitness via predatory gains. Although similarity of distantly related species is often intuitively implicated with mimicry, the exact mechanisms and evolutionary causes remain elusive in many cases. Here, we report a complex aggressive mimicry strategy in Plecodus straeleni, a scale-eating cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika, which imitates two other cichlid spec ...[more]