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Cleaner wrasse prefer client mucus: support for partner control mechanisms in cleaning interactions. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2003 Recent studies on cleaning behaviour suggest that there are conflicts between cleaners and their clients over what cleaners eat. The diet of cleaners usually contains ectoparasites and some client tissue. It is unclear, however, whether cleaners prefer client tissue over ectoparasites or whether they include client tissue in their diet only when ...
Grutter AS, Bshary R.
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Temporal comparison and predictors of fish species abundance and richness on undisturbed coral reef patches [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Large disturbances can cause rapid degradation of coral reef communities, but what baseline changes in species assemblages occur on undisturbed reefs through time?
Elena L.E.S. Wagner +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Capture and long‐distance translocation of cleaner fish to control lice infestations on marine salmonid farms has the potential to influence wild populations via overexploitation in source regions, and introgression in recipient regions.
Gaute W. Seljestad +10 more
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Mutualism promotes site selection in a large marine planktivore
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Mutualism is a form of symbiosis whereby both parties benefit from the relationship. An example is cleaning symbiosis, which has been observed in terrestrial and marine environments.
Asia O. Armstrong +8 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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A tropical cleaner wrasse finds new clients at the frontier [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2016 [Extract] The cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, is a highly specialized reef fish that removes and consumes ecto-parasites, and occasionally dead tissues, from the bodies of other fishes – which we call "clients" (Figure 1; Grutter 2004; Grutter and Irving 2007). This species is the most widespread of all obligate cleaners, occurring from Africa to
Luiz, Osmar J. +4 more
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The selective cleaning behaviour of juvenile blue-headed wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) in the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2018 Through the removal of parasites, dead skin and mucus from the bodies of visiting reef fish (clients), cleaner fish have a significant ecosystem function in the ecology of coral reefs.
Cable, Joanne +2 more
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Genomic Landscape of Divergence in Ballan Wrasse (Labrus bergylta). [PDF]
Mol EcolABSTRACT The architecture underpinning genomic divergence is still a largely uncharted territory and likely case‐dependent. Here, we investigated genome‐wide variation in Ballan wrasse, a northeastern Atlantic fish species that displays two sympatric colour morphs, spotty and plain, that have been suggested to represent subspecies.
Jansson E +11 more
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Halichoeres penrosei (Labridae), a sporadic cleaner wrasse
Marine Biodiversity Records, 2008 The cleaning behaviour of juveniles of the Brazilian wrasse Halichoeres penrosei (Labridae) is described for the first time in the present paper. Diurnal free dive observations and photographs were taken in the shallow reefs of Porto da Barra. The cleaners' sizes varied from 3 to 7 cm, and clients' fish size varied from 8 to 20 cm.
Ericka O.C. Coni +2 more
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Use of lumpfish for sea-lice control in salmon farming: challenges and opportunities [PDF]
, 2017 Efficient sea-lice control remains one of the most important challenges for the salmon farming industry. The use of wrasse (Labridae) as cleaner fish offers an alternative to medicines for sea-lice control, but wrasse tend to become inactive in winter ...
Adams +113 more
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