Food Selectivity and Diet Switch Can Explain the Slow Feeding of Herbivorous Coral-Reef Fishes during the Morning

Ruth Khait; Uri Obolski; Lilach Hadany; Amatzia Genin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082391

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Food Selectivity and Diet Switch Can Explain the Slow Feeding of Herbivorous Coral-Reef Fishes during the Morning

Ruth Khait ,

* E-mail: ruth.khait@mail.huji.ac.il

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Uri Obolski,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Lilach Hadany,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Amatzia Genin

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Food Selectivity and Diet Switch Can Explain the Slow Feeding of Herbivorous Coral-Reef Fishes during the Morning

Ruth Khait,
Uri Obolski,
Lilach Hadany,
Amatzia Genin

Published: December 17, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082391

About the Authors

Ruth Khait

* E-mail: ruth.khait@mail.huji.ac.il

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Uri Obolski

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Lilach Hadany

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Amatzia Genin

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG RK. Performed the experiments: RK. Analyzed the data: UO LH AG RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG LH. Wrote the paper: UO LH AG RK. Mathematical model development: LH UO.

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