Nanoscale ultrastructures increase the visual conspicuousness of signalling traits in obligate cleaner shrimps

EM Caves, AL Davis, S Johnsen - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Signal theory predicts organisms should evolve signals that are conspicuous to intended
receivers in natural signalling environments. Cleaner shrimps remove ectoparasites from …

Stable isotopes disentangle niche partitioning and co‐occurrence in a multi‐species marine mutualism

BM Titus, CYM Froehlich, C Vondriska, R Baker… - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists have long sought general explanations for the co‐occurrence of ecologically
similar taxa. Niche theory explains co‐occurrence via functional differences among taxa that …

Multiple origins and strong phenotypic convergence in fish-cleaning palaemonid shrimp lineages

I Horká, S De Grave, CHJM Fransen, A Petrusek… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Several species of palaemonid shrimps are known to act as fish-cleaning symbionts, with
cleaning interactions ranging from dedicated (obligate) to facultative. We confirmed five …

Comparative diversity of anemone-associated fishes and decapod crustaceans in a Belizean coral reef and seagrass system

RM Brooker, WE Feeney, TL Sih, MCO Ferrari… - Marine Biodiversity, 2019 - Springer
Within tropical coastal habitats such as coral reefs and seagrass meadows, sea anemones
(Actiniaria) provide microhabitats for a diverse range of fauna. However, the mechanisms …

Widespread Occurrence of a Rarely Known Association between the Hydrocorals Stylaster roseus and Millepora alcicornis at Bonaire, Southern Caribbean

S Montano, JD Reimer, VN Ivanenko… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Among symbiotic associations, cases of pseudo-auto-epizoism, in which a species uses a
resembling but not directly related species as substrate, are poorly documented in coral reef …

Cleaner shrimp are true cleaners of injured fish

DB Vaughan, AS Grutter, HW Ferguson, R Jones… - Marine Biology, 2018 - Springer
Reef fishes sustain injuries from various behavioural and environmental interactions. Injured
fishes have been observed frequenting cleaning stations to be attended by different cleaner …

Parasite-mediated host behavioural modifications: Gyrodactylus turnbulli infected Trinidadian guppies increase contact rates with uninfected conspecifics

M Reynolds, EA Arapi, J Cable - Parasitology, 2018 - cambridge.org
While group formation provides antipredatory defences, increases foraging efficiency and
mating opportunities, it can be counterintuitive by promoting disease transmission amongst …

Lack of strategic service provisioning by Pederson's cleaner shrimp (Ancylomenes pedersoni) highlights independent evolution of cleaning behaviors between ocean …

BM Titus, M Daly, C Vondriska, I Hamilton, DA Exton - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Marine cleaning interactions have been useful model systems for exploring evolutionary
game theory and explaining the stability of mutualism. In the Indo-Pacific, cleaner organisms …

SCUBA noise alters community structure and cooperation at Pederson's cleaner shrimp cleaning stations

KP McCloskey, AN Radford, A Rose… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Recreational SCUBA diving is widespread and increasing on coral reefs worldwide.
Standard open-circuit SCUBA equipment is inherently noisy and, by seeking out areas of …

Life-History Traits and Population Structure of Pederson Cleaner Shrimps Ancylomenes pedersoni

JA Gilpin, NE Chadwick - The Biological Bulletin, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Cleaner organisms perform key functional roles in reducing rates of parasitism in marine
communities. Pederson cleaner shrimps Ancylomenes pedersoni are major cleaners of reef …