Honesty and cheating in cleaning symbioses: Evolutionarily stable strategies defined by variable pay-offs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1512, 2003, Pages 299-305

  Freckleton, Robert P ^a   Côté, Isabelle M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Game theory; Population model; Positive interactions

Indexed keywords

CHEATING BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FISH; GAME THEORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; CLEANING; CORAL REEF; DENSITY; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECTOPARASITE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GAME; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 0037423549     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2232     Document Type: Article

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