The nested structure of marine cleaning symbiosis: Is it like flowers and bees?

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-54

  Guimarães Jr , Paulo R ^a,b   Sazima, Cristina ^a   Dos Reis, Sérgio Furtado ^a   Sazima, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymmetrical interactions; Coevolutionary networks; Coral reefs; Null models

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BEE; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; COEVOLUTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; CRUSTACEAN; ECTOPARASITE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; FLOWER; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MUTUALISM; NEST STRUCTURE; NESTEDNESS;

ARTICLE; BEE; ECTOPARASITE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FISH; FLOWER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHRIMP; SPECIES RICHNESS; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PALAEMONIDAE; SEA;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; APOIDEA; PISCES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PALAEMONIDAE; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 34249847985     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0562     Document Type: Article

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