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Antioxidants can change fish behaviour

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Sticklebacks on a low-antioxidant diet are poorer parents.

Antioxidants are all the rage, with research suggesting that they may help to prevent cancer, strokes and heart disease. Now a study highlights how these oxygen-mopping compounds affect more than just cellular health: they also seem to effect behaviour.

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  1. Pike, T., Blount, J. D., Lindstr£m, J. & Metcalfe, N. B. Behavioral Ecology 18, 1100?1105 (2007).

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Kaplan, M. Antioxidants can change fish behaviour. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2007.228

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