Colourful stripes send mixed messages to safe and risky partners in a diffuse cleaning mutualism

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2289-2299

  Lettieri, L ^a   Streelman, J T ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Chemical defence; Cleaning; Colour signal; Diffuse mutualism; Elacatinus; Evolution; Predator; Sponge dwelling; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; COLOR MORPH; CYPRINID; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MUTUALISM; SIGNAL; SPONGE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GROOMING; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLOR; GROOMING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCIFORMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ELACATINUS; GOBIIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 77958602914     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02098.x     Document Type: Article

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