Branchiobdellid annelids and their crayfish hosts: Are they engaged in a cleaning symbiosis?

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 250-255

  Brown, Bryan L ^a,b   Creed Jr , Robert P ^a   Dobson, William E ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleaning symbiosis; Commensalism; Epibiotic gill fouling; Mutualism; Stream

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; COMMENSALISM; CRAYFISH; SYMBIOSIS;

UNITED STATES;

ANNELIDA; ASTACOIDEA; BRANCHIOBDELLIDAE; CAMBARIDAE; CAMBARINCOLA; CAMBARUS CHASMODACTYLUS; CLITELLATA; CRUSTACEA;

EID: 0036944164     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0961-1     Document Type: Article

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