Cleaner wrasse prefer client mucus: Support for partner control mechanisms in cleaning interactions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Grutter, Alexandra S ^a   Bshary, Redouan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cleaning behaviour; Cooperation; Diet preference; Labroides dimidiatus; Mutualism; Partner control

Indexed keywords

CLEANING BEHAVIOR; DIET; ECTOPARASITE; MUTUALISM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLEANING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ECTOPARASITE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; FLOUR; HYPOTHESIS; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; CHLORURUS; CHLORURUS SORDIDUS; ISOPODA; LABROIDES; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; MONOGENEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SPARISOMA CRETENSE;

EID: 0242490444     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0077     Document Type: Article

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