Experimental evidence that partner choice is a driving force in the payoff distribution among cooperators or mutualists: The cleaner fish case

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 130-136

  Bshary, Redouan ^a,b   Grutter, Alexandra S ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological markets; Labroides dimidiatus; Mutualism; Partner choice

Indexed keywords

CLEANER FISH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATE CHOICE; MUTUALISM; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; LABROIDES; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS;

EID: 0036168841     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00295.x     Document Type: Article

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