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  1. Living with a killer: How an unlikely #MantisShrimp-clam association violates a biological principle phys.org/news/2024-08-killer-m

    Within-host adaptive speciation of commensal #YoyoClams leads to ecological exclusion, not co-existence peerj.com/articles/17753/

    6 of the 7 clam species, called yoyo #clams, attach to the shrimp's burrow walls with a long foot used to spring, yoyo-like, away from danger. The 7th species attaches directly to the mantis #shrimp's body and does not yoyo.