Tilapias use urine to attract females

Scientists in Portugal and Germany have just identified in the urine of male Mozambique Tilapia fish a sex pheromone used to attract and prepare females to spawn (pheromones are chemicals that affect the behaviour - in this case sexual - of other individuals of the species). The work, by Tina Keller-Costa at the Centre for Marine Science, University of the Algarve, Portugal and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, has important economically implications as tilapias are now one of the most farmed fish for food in the world.

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