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Are cleaner fish clean?

Marine Biology, 2021
Cleaner fish remove parasites from other organisms, called clients. While there is an extensive body of work on the positive role of cleaners for their clients and reef communities, remarkably, potential parasites hosted by specialised cleaner fishes themselves have not been explored.
P. Narvaez   +3 more
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Cleaner fish really do clean

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 clients, leading to the hypothesis that cleaner fish are 'behavioural parasites' that exploit the ...
Alexandra Grutter, Grutter Alexandra S
exaly   +5 more sources

Effect of the removal of cleaner fish on the abundance and species composition of reef fish

Oecologia, 1997
The ecological significance of cleaner fish on coral reefs was investigated. I removed all cleaner fish, Labroides dimidiatus, from eight small reefs, measured the subsequent effect on the abundance and species composition of all reef fish after 3 and 6 months, and compared it with eight control reefs with cleaner fish.
Alexandra Grutter, Grutter Alexandra S
exaly   +6 more sources

Are cleaner fish, Labroides dimidiatus, inequity averse?

Animal Behaviour, 2012
Inequity aversion (IA), a willingness to incur temporary costs to prevent unequal outcomes, is common in humans and thought to be beneficial in the context of cooperative relationships with nonkin, since it might allow individuals to regulate contributions to cooperative activities.
Redouan Bshary
exaly   +2 more sources

Cleaner fish coloration does not always reduce predation risk: testing the effect of protective mimicry in the false cleanerfish, Aspidontus taeniatus

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023
Cleaning symbiosis of the bluestreak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus (Labridae), is a well-known example of mutualism in coral reefs. The cleaner wrasse is characterized by its bluish body colour with black stripes, and the false cleanerfish ...
Hajime Sato, Y. Sakai, T. Kuwamura
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Cleaner blues: Condition-dependent colour and cleaner fish service quality

Behavioural Processes, 2020
While vivid colours in sexual signals can provide information on individual quality, vivid colours in interspecific signals have been interpreted mostly as indicating species identity and maximizing signal detection. Here we investigate if colour differences in an interspecific signal could also indicate relevant aspects of individual quality because ...
Sandra Trigo   +5 more
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Cleaner shrimp are true cleaners of injured fish

Marine Biology, 2018
Reef fishes sustain injuries from various behavioural and environmental interactions. Injured fishes have been observed frequenting cleaning stations to be attended by different cleaner fishes. This symbiotic relationship between injured fishes and cleaner fishes has only been observed in the wild and has never been demonstrated empirically for cleaner
David B. Vaughan   +4 more
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cleaner fish

CABI Compendium, 2022
This datasheet on cleaner fish covers Identity, Description, Further Information.
J. Treasurer
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