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Category: Homing

Posted on October 15, 2013February 15, 2014

Bile salts scream seduction – for sea lampreys

New research at Michigan State University shows that bile salts, secreted from the liver and traditionally associated with digestive functions, are being used as pheromones by sea lampreys. The interesting…

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Posted on December 3, 2012December 3, 2012

Neither philopatric nor panmictic

Interesting and important paper on homing in E. tridentatus that was recently published in Molecular Ecology, entitled ‘Neither philopatric nor panmictic: microsatellite and mtDNA evidence suggests lack of natal homing…

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