Department of Botany and Zoology Faculty of Science Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology University of Łódź Łódź Poland

Department of Zoology University Museum University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan

Faculty of Bioresources Mie University Mie Japan

Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences Brno Czech Republic

Shanghai Natural History Museum Branch of Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai China

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Parasitic fish embryos do a "front-flip" on the yolk to resist expulsion from the host

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