The fine line between mutualism and parasitism: Complex effects in a cleaning symbiosis demonstrated by multiple field experiments

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 199-207

  Brown, Bryan L ^a,c   Creed, Robert P ^b   Skelton, James ^a,c   Rollins, Mark A ^b   Farrell, Kaitlin J ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleaning behavior; Context dependence; Mutualism; Parasitism; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; COMPLEXITY; CRAYFISH; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; PARASITISM;

ANIMAL; ANNELID; ARTICLE; CRAYFISH; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GILL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; ASTACOIDEA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GILLS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DENSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANNELIDA; ASTACOIDEA; BRANCHIOBDELLIDA;

EID: 84865596326     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2280-5     Document Type: Article

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