Client preferences by Caribbean cleaning gobies: Food, safety or something else?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1015-1022

  Soares, Marta C ^a   Cardoso, Sónia C ^a   Côté, Isabelle M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cleaning symbiosis; Ectoparasites; Elacatinus spp; Food safety trade off; Foraging preferences; Predation risk

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ECTOPARASITE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PERCIFORM; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SAFETY; SYMBIOSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; ELACATINUS; ELACATINUS EVELYNAE; ELACATINUS PROCHILOS; GOBIIDAE; GOBIOSOMA GENIE; PISCES;

EID: 34147140429     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0334-6     Document Type: Article

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