Caribbean cleaning gobies prefer client ectoparasites over mucus

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1244-1248

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

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEATING BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECTOPARASITE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ISOPOD; MUCUS; MUTUALISM; PERCIFORM; REEF;

ELACATINUS; ELACATINUS PROCHILOS; GOBIOSOMA GENIE; ISOPODA; LABRIDAE; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS;

EID: 78349257391     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01838.x     Document Type: Article

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