Does competition for clients increase service quality in cleaning gobies?

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 625-632

  Soares, Marta C ^a,b,c   Bshary, Redouan ^b   Cardoso, Sónia C ^c   Côté, Isabelle M ^d  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEANING BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECTOPARASITE; PERCIFORM; REEF; SYMBIOSIS;

ELACATINUS; GOBIOSOMA GENIE;

EID: 43749103080     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01510.x     Document Type: Article

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