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Male seahorse pouch proteins may help remove toxic waste from developing embryos
Source: Phys.org · Published
Male seahorses, fishes that belong to the Syngnathidae family, show a distinctive reproductive strategy in which males carry developing embryos in a brood pouch. Their most distinctive feature is the brood pouch on the ventral side of the male fish, into which the female fish transfers her eggs.
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