The Personality Behind Cheating: Behavioural Types and the Feeding Ecology of Cleaner Fish

Ethology

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 904-912

  Wilson, Alexander D M ^a,b   Krause, Jens ^b,c   Herbert Read, James E ^d   Ward, Ashley J W ^e  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndromes; Boldness; Game theory; Labroides dimidiatus; Mutualism; Personality

Indexed keywords

LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS;

EID: 84904729443     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12262     Document Type: Article

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