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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

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When they share habitat with rainbow darters, male orangethroat darters learn to recognize their own and other species. They ignore other fish that look even slightly different from themselves, a behavior that appears to drive the evolution of their own color patterns.

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