Image scoring and cooperation in a cleaner fish mutualism

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7096, 2006, Pages 975-978

  Bshary, Redouan ^a   Grutter, Alexandra S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ECTOPARASITES; RECIPROCITY; SOCIAL ANIMALS; SOCIAL IMAGE;

FISHERIES;

ALTRUISM; ECTOPARASITE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; MUTUALISM;

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLEANING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; ECTOPARASITE; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; FISH; IMAGE SCORING BEHAVIOR; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS;

EID: 33745554685     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04755     Document Type: Article

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