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Parasite-laden fish choose to use sharks as back scratchers - but bite-sized fish are less likely to take the risk of being eaten!

10.19.22 | PLOS

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275458

Article Title: Sharks are the preferred scraping surface for large pelagic fishes: Possible implications for parasite removal and fitness in a changing ocean

Author Countries: Australia, USA

Funding: The collection of field data was supported by National Geographic’s Pristine Seas programme, the Ian Potter Foundation, the Bertarelli Foundation, the UK Blue Belt programme, and the National Environmental Science Program – Marine Biodiversity Hub. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0275458

Sharks are the preferred scraping surface for large pelagic fishes: Possible implications for parasite removal and fitness in a changing ocean

19-Oct-2022

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

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APA:
PLOS. (2022, October 19). Parasite-laden fish choose to use sharks as back scratchers - but bite-sized fish are less likely to take the risk of being eaten!. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LPE50N08/parasite-laden-fish-choose-to-use-sharks-as-back-scratchers-but-bite-sized-fish-are-less-likely-to-take-the-risk-of-being-eaten.html
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"Parasite-laden fish choose to use sharks as back scratchers - but bite-sized fish are less likely to take the risk of being eaten!." Brightsurf News, Oct. 19 2022, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LPE50N08/parasite-laden-fish-choose-to-use-sharks-as-back-scratchers-but-bite-sized-fish-are-less-likely-to-take-the-risk-of-being-eaten.html.