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Presence of cleaner wrasse increases the recruitment of damselfishes to coral reefs. [PDF]

Biol Lett, 2015
Mutualisms affect the biodiversity, distribution and abundance of biological communities. However, ecological processes that drive mutualism-related shifts in population structure are often unclear and must be examined to elucidate how complex, multi-species mutualistic networks are formed and structured. In this study, we investigated how
Sun D, Cheney KL, Werminghausen J, Meekan MG, McCormick MI, Cribb TH, Grutter AS.   +6 more
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Cleaner wrasse indirectly affect the cognitive performance of a damselfish through ectoparasite removal. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2018
Cleaning organisms play a fundamental ecological role by removing ectoparasites and infected tissue from client surfaces. We used the well-studied cleaning mutualisms involving the cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, to test how client cognition is affected by ectoparasites and whether these effects are mitigated ...
Binning SA, Roche DG, Grutter AS, Colosio S, Sun D, Miest J, Bshary R.   +6 more
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Acclimatisation with lice-infested salmon improves cleaner fish lice consumption

Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 2021
Securing the welfare and maximising the lice removal efficacy of ~60 million cleaner fish used each year on salmonid farms is essential to develop a productive and ethical industry with low salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis levels.
K Gentry, S Bui, F Oppedal, R Bjelland, V Nola, T Dempster   +5 more
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Cleaner fish are sensitive to what their partners can and cannot see

Communications Biology, 2021
McAuliffe et al. demonstrate that in the context of cooperative cleaning, wild-caught female cleaner wrasse are more likely to cheat when their partners are out of view.
Katherine McAuliffe, Lindsey A. Drayton, Amanda Royka, Mélisande Aellen, Laurie R. Santos, Redouan Bshary   +5 more
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Insights into the early gonad development of the protogynous ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta)

Aquaculture Reports, 2023
The reproductive biology of ballan wrasse, a popular cleaner fish species now bred in captivity, is not well understood particularly the early stages of development and their accompanying endocrine changes. The protogynous nature of this species has been
Peter A. Palma, Su Su Lwin, Eduardo Jimenez-Fernandez, Johanna H. Perschthaler, Johanna L. Baily, Alejandro P. Gutierrez   +5 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. Some mammals, birds and paper wasps can pass TI tasks.
Takashi Hotta, Kentaro Ueno, Yuya Hataji, Hika Kuroshima, Kazuo Fujita, Masanori Kohda   +5 more
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Cleaner wrasse influence habitat selection of young damselfish [PDF]

Coral Reefs, 2015
The presence of bluestreak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, on coral reefs increases total abundance and biodiversity of reef fishes. The mechanism(s) that cause such shifts in population structure are unclear, but it is possible that young fish preferentially settle into microhabitats where cleaner wrasse are present.
Sun, D., Cheney, K.L., Werminghausen, J., McClure, E.C., Meekan, M.G., McCormick, M.I., Cribb, T.H., Grutter, A.S.   +7 more
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Power and temptation cause shifts between exploitation and cooperation in a cleaner wrasse mutualism. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2013
In many instances of cooperation, only one individual has both the potential and the incentive to ‘cheat’ and exploit its partner. Under these asymmetric conditions, a simple model predicts that variation in the temptation to cheat and in the potential victim's capacity for partner control leads to shifts between exploitation and cooperation.
Gingins S, Werminghausen J, Johnstone RA, Grutter AS, Bshary R.   +4 more
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The influence of sleep disruption on learning and memory in fish. [PDF]

J Sleep Res
Summary Sleep is a ubiquitous process that has been conserved in animals. Yet, our understanding of the functions of sleep largely derives from a few species. Sleep is considered to play an important role in mental processes, including learning and memory consolidation, but how widespread this relationship is across taxa remains unclear.
Sowersby W, Kobayashi T, Awata S, Sogawa S, Kohda M.   +4 more
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Roving and Service Quality in the Cleaner Wrasse Labroides bicolor [PDF]

Ethology, 2010
AbstractThe cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus occupies fixed ‘cleaning stations’ on coral reefs, which ‘client’ reef fish visit repeatedly to have parasites removed. Conflict arises because cleaners prefer to cheat by feeding on client mucus instead of parasites. Clients can prevent L.
Oates, Jennifer, Manica, Andrea, Bshary, Redouan   +2 more
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