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Sarah Flanagan receives funding from the Brian Mason Scientific Trust and the Marsden Fund.
Senior Lecturer Sarah Flanagan and her team have found a surprising courtship between female and male wide-bodied pipefish. Dr Flanagan's research reveals that the male pipefish is the one to initiate courtship displays using comical wiggles. This is unexpected, as the female pipefish has brightly-coloured stripes and normally the sex with more ornamentation in a species leads the courtship display.
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Disclosure statement
Sarah Flanagan receives funding from the Brian Mason Scientific Trust and the Marsden Fund.