Parasite distribution on client reef fish determines cleaner fish foraging patterns

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 235, Issue , 2002, Pages 217-222

  Bshary, Redouan ^a   Grutter, Alexandra S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cleaning behaviour; Cooperation; Labroides dimidiatus; Mutualism; Selective foraging

Indexed keywords

CLEANER FISH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MUTUALISM;

CTENOCHAETUS; CTENOCHAETUS STRIATUS; LABROIDES; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; MONOGENEA;

EID: 0037134720     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps235217     Document Type: Article

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