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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!

Bioengineer by Bioengineer
October 19, 2022
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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275458

A rainbow runner scraping on a blue shark at Ascension Island

Credit: Christopher D. H. Thompson, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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.



Journal

PLoS ONE

DOI

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

Article Publication Date

19-Oct-2022

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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