Blue and Yellow Signal Cleaning Behavior in Coral Reef Fishes

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1283-1287

  Cheney, Karen L ^a   Grutter, Alexandra S ^a   Blomberg, Simon P ^a   Marshall, N Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; GROOMING; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COLOR; COLOR VISION; GROOMING; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANTHOZOA; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; PISCES;

EID: 68149160211     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.028     Document Type: Article

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