Pairs of cooperating cleaner fish provide better service quality than singletons

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7215, 2008, Pages 964-966

  Bshary, Redouan ^a   Grutter, Alexandra S ^b   Willener, Astrid S T ^a   Leimar, Olof ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEATING BEHAVIOR; CLEANER FISH; CORAL REEF; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECTOPARASITE; FISH; GAME THEORY; MUCUS; MUTUALISM; PRISONER DILEMMA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPARASITE; FEMALE; FISH; GAME; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SYMBIOSIS;

LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS;

EID: 54049139993     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07184     Document Type: Article

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