Habitat/sex differences in time at cleaning stations and ectoparasite loads in a Caribbean reef fish

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 193, Issue , 2000, Pages 191-199

  Sikkel, Paul C ^a,b   Fuller, Claire A ^b   Hunte, Wayne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Barbados)

^b MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Cleaning symbiosis; Copepoda; Coral reef fish; Ectoparasites; Gnathiidae; Monogenea; Pomacentridae

Indexed keywords

CLEANER FISH; PARASITE INFESTATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

BARBADOS;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CHROMIS CHROMIS; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; DACTYLOGYRIDAE; GNATHIIDAE; ISOPODA; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; MICROSPATHODON CHRYSURUS; MONOGENEA; PISCES; POMACENTRIDAE;

EID: 0034723790     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps193191     Document Type: Article

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