Optimising cleaning behaviour: Minimising the costs and maximising ectoparasite removal

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 234, Issue , 2002, Pages 257-264

  Grutter, A S ^a   McCallum, H ^a   Lester, R J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cleaning behaviour; Cleaning symbiosis; Foraging behaviour; Gnathiidae; Labroides dimidiatus

Indexed keywords

CLEANER FISH; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; ECTOPARASITE; PEST CONTROL;

GNATHIIDAE; HEMIGYMNUS; HEMIGYMNUS MELAPTERUS; ISOPODA; LABROIDES; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS;

EID: 0037014160     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps234257     Document Type: Article

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