The potential for cleaner fish-driven evolution in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis: Genetic or environmental control of pigmentation? [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The parasitic salmon louse represents one of the biggest challenges to environmentally sustainable salmonid aquaculture across the globe. This species also displays a high evolutionary potential, as demonstrated by its rapid development of resistance to ...
Frode Oppedal, Tina Oldham, Frank Nilsen
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Juvenile cleaner fish can socially learn the consequences of cheating [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Cleaner fish can cheat clients for higher rewards but this comes with a risk of punishment. Here, Truskanov et al. show that juvenile cleaner fish can learn by observing adults to behave more cooperatively themselves but also to prefer clients that are ...
Noa Truskanov +2 more
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From learning to reversal learning: How non-cleaner fish tackle the biological market task [PDF]
Animal CognitionThe biological market task – also known as the ephemeral reward task – models the mutualistic cleaning interactions between bluestreak cleaner wrasses and their client fish on coral reefs.
Laurent Prétôt +2 more
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Rapid self-recognition ability in the cleaner fish [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWhether animals are self-aware has important implications for our approaches to both animal cognition and animal welfare. A landmark moment in animal cognition research was when great apes passed the mark-test and demonstrated mirror self-recognition ...
Shumpei Sogawa +7 more
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Cleaner fish escape salmon farms and hybridize with local wrasse populations [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The genetic impact of farmed fish escaping aquaculture is a highly debated issue. However, non-target species, such as cleaner fish used to remove sea lice from farmed fish, are rarely considered.
Ellika Faust +4 more
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Cleaner fish with mirror self-recognition capacity precisely realize their body size based on their mental image [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAnimals exhibiting mirror self-recognition (MSR) are considered self-aware; however, studies on their level of self-awareness remain inconclusive.
Taiga Kobayashi +4 more
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Rapid reduction in biodiversity and abundance of Caribbean coral reef fishes at cleaning stations following removal of coral-dwelling cleaner gobies [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUnderstanding the dynamics of species distribution and abundance, as well as interactions with the biotic environment, is a fundamental goal of ecology.
Gina C. Hendrick +3 more
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Brain morphology predicts social intelligence in wild cleaner fish [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 The causes and consequences of social intelligence are challenging to establish. A study on wild cleaner fish reports that large forebrains enable individuals to score higher in a social competence test, suggesting forebrain size is important for complex
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Nature, 1999 The cleaning of client fish by cleaner fish is one of the most highly developed interspecific communication systems known. But even though it is a seemingly obvious mutualism1, 2, several quantitative studies3, 5 have failed to show any benefit for the ...
Alexandra S. Grutter
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The First Cleaner Ant? A Novel Partnership in the Arizona Desert [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionI give an account of the first known example of an ant (i.e., an undescribed Dorymyrmex) that licks and nips the much larger workers of a different ant species (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) in a manner remarkably parallel to the actions of cleaner fish that ...
Mark W. Moffett
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