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S1_Figure

Map of Kuchierabu-Jima Island (A), with the port of Honmura (B), where mimetic fish were observed drifting along with plant debris (C)

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1673v1/supp-1

S2 - dataset

Dataset with raw data used for geometric morphometric analysis

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1673v1/supp-2

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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Alexya C Queiroz conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables.

Yoichi Sakai conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper, sampling.

Marcelo Vallinoto conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Breno Barros conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, sampling.

Animal Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

As there is no national Japanese licensing framework, samples were collected following the “Guidelines for Proper Conduct of Animal Experiments” set out by the Hiroshima University Animal Research Committee, which are based on international ethical standards (Jenkins et al., 2014), and only after obtaining local community permission.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

All relevant data are made available with the manuscript, and must be published as supplementary material if our MS is accepted for publication in PeerJ.

Funding

This study was financially supported by CAPES (process #6718-10-8) and FAPESPA (process # 456780/2012). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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