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SUBMITTER: Corn KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9351382 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Corn Katherine A KA Friedman Sarah T ST Burress Edward D ED Martinez Christopher M CM Larouche Olivier O Price Samantha A SA Wainwright Peter C PC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220726 31
Diversity of feeding mechanisms is a hallmark of reef fishes, but the history of this variation is not fully understood. Here, we explore the emergence and proliferation of a biting mode of feeding, which enables fishes to feed on attached benthic prey. We find that feeding modes other than suction, including biting, ram biting, and an intermediate group that uses both biting and suction, were nearly absent among the lineages of teleost fishes inhabiting reefs prior to the end-Cretaceous mass ex ...[more]