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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe An editorial oversight has turned a report on fish pigmentation into one of the year's most talked-about papers. The study of poeciliid


fishes, first published online in July by the journal _Ethology_ (Z. W. Culumber _et al. Ethology_ 120, 1090–1100; 2014), received scant attention until ecologist David Harris at the


University of California, Davis, tweeted a screenshot of one of its pages, highlighting this phrase in parentheses: “Should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?” Harris added his own comment


on Twitter: “Not sure how this made it through proofreading, peer review and copy editing.” In one of dozens of responses, Tim Elfenbein, managing editor of the journal _Cultural


Anthropology_, tweeted: “Note to authors: you are ultimately responsible for the work that bears your name, no matter the level of editing.” See go.nature.com/3bswdt for more. This is a


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