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Science 3 November 1967:
Vol. 158. no. 3801, pp. 671 - 672
DOI: 10.1126/science.158.3801.671
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Alarm Reaction of the Top Smelt, Atherinops affinis: Reexamination

Richard H. Rosenblatt 1 and George S. Losey Jr. 1

1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92037

We did not observe the reported alarm reaction of the top smelt Atherinops affinis (Ayres) when presented with a methanol extract of whole top smelt; we interpret the reaction as an experimental artifact. Rather, a methanol extract of top smelt is an attractant, as is methanol extract of shrimp.

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