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DNA barcoding identifies a cosmopolitan diet in the ocean sunfish. <i>NPG Scientific Reports 6(28762)</i>: 9 pp. <a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28762\" target=\"_blank\">http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28762</a>","BEntID":252889,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":1,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>NPG Scientific Reports 6(28762)</i>: 9 pp. <a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28762\" target=\"_blank\">http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28762</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Sousa, L.L.; Xavier, R.; Costa, V.; Humphries, N.E.; Trueman, C.; Rosa, R.; Sims, D.W.; Queiroz, N.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Sousa, L.L. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is the world's heaviest bony fish reaching a body mass of up to 2.3 tonnes. However, the prey M. mola consumes to fuel this prodigious growth remains poorly known. 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