Aggressive mimics profit from a model-signal receiver mutualism

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1622, 2007, Pages 2087-2091

  Cheney, Karen L ^a   Côté, Isabelle M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggressive mimicry; Cleaner wrasse; Cleaning symbioses; Coral reef fish

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MIMICRY; MUTUALISM; PARASITE INTENSITY; PERCIFORM; PREDATION; TOLERANCE;

AGGRESSION; ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLUESTREAK CLEANER FISH; BLUESTRIPED FANGBLENNY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FISH; FORAGING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITISM; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STAGHORN DAMSELFISH; SYMBIOSIS;

AMBLYGLYPHIDODON CURACAO; ANTHOZOA; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; PLAGIOTREMUS RHINORHYNCHOS; POMACENTRIDAE;

EID: 34548036281     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0543     Document Type: Article

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