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Long-term effects of the cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus on coral reef fish communities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Cleaning behaviour is deemed a mutualism, however the benefit of cleaning interactions to client individuals is unknown. Furthermore, mechanisms that may shift fish community structure in the presence of cleaning organisms are unclear.
Peter A Waldie +4 more
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Long-term cleaner fish presence affects growth of a coral reef fish. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2011 Cleaning behaviour is considered to be a classical example of mutualism. However, no studies, to our knowledge, have measured the benefits to clients in terms of growth. In the longest experimental study of its kind, over an 8 year period, cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus were consistently removed from seven patch ...
Clague GE +5 more
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The role of cleaner fish in a predator-prey model: dynamics and optimal harvesting
Communications in Mathematical Biology and Neuroscience, 2023 . This study focuses on a predator-prey model that includes a Cleaner Fish. It highlights the crucial role of the Cleaner Fish in the system dynamics, as well as the effect of fishing on the three species.
M. Hafdane +4 more
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GABAergic role in the disruption of wild cleaner fish behaviour under high CO2
Animal Behaviour, 2023 the wild. Most coral reef fi shes engage in complex cleaning interactions, where they bene fi t from ectoparasite removal and stress relief. Here, we tested whether potential ocean acidi fi cation impairment of wild cleaning interactions, between the ...
J. Paula +7 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 In marine interspecific cleaning mutualisms, small fish known as “cleaners” inspect the surface, gills and sometimes the mouth of “client” reef fish, eating ectoparasites, mucus, scales and dead or infected tissue.
Sandra Trigo +8 more
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Punishment is sensitive to outside options in humans but not in cleaner fish (Labroides dimidiatus)
Animal Behaviour, 2023 Across human and animal societies, punishment is used as a means of responding to cheating and modifying the behavior of others. A growing body of work shows that human punishment decisions involve representing both the outcomes of transgressions, as ...
Paul Deutchman +10 more
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Cleaner Fish Drives Local Fish Diversity on Coral Reefs [PDF]
Current Biology, 2003 Coral reefs are one of the most diverse habitats in the world, yet our understanding of the processes affecting their biodiversity is limited. At the local scale, cleaner fish are thought to have a disproportionate effect, in relation to their abundance and size, on the activity of many other fish species, but confirmation of this species' effect on ...
Grutter, A. S. +2 more
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Transitive inference in cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus).
PLoS ONE, 2020 Transitive inference (TI) is the ability to infer unknown relationships from previous information. To test TI in non-human animals, transitive responding has been examined in a TI task where non-adjacent pairs were presented after premise pair training ...
Takashi Hotta +5 more
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Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 2020 Over the last 2 decades, cleaner fishes have been employed to remove external sea lice parasites from Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in sea cages. Norway, Scotland, Ireland, and the Faroe Islands combined now use ~60 million cleaner fish per year.
Gentry, K +3 more
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Beyond symbiosis: cleaner shrimp clean up in culture.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Cleaner organisms exhibit a remarkable natural behaviour where they consume ectoparasites attached to "client" organisms. While this behaviour can be utilized as a natural method of parasitic disease control (or biocontrol), it is not known whether ...
Thane A Militz, Kate S Hutson
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