Cleaning symbioses: Proximate and adaptive explanations

BioScience

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 512-517

  Poulin, Robert ^a   Grutter, Alexandra S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 0029762059     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1312929     Document Type: Article

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