Cleaning symbiosis between shrimp (Hippolytidae) and moray eels (Muraenidae) : primitive or advanced /
approaching and cleaning/touching the host. L. grabhami does
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | approaching and cleaning/touching the host. L. grabhami does approaching or cleaning/touching the host than L. wurdemanni. cleaning behavior. It tends to be quite haphazard in cleaning its antennae, which pick up chemical cues. cleaning/touching. The difference in behavior between L. clients in the same manner; even shrimp of the same genus Comparisons between this behavior and that of L. grabhami depend on cleaning alone to obtain nourishment. Much of its either. However, it does spend much more of its time grandis (a killifish). General eel behavior: posed, have shown that L. wurdemanni is not as sophisticated in its headsweep, stationary, moving in rocks, and emerged from host, cleaning/touching host, stationary, and hypothesis was tested: All cleaner shrimp do not respond to in this manner in the presence of a control species, Fundulus meleagiis, an Indo-Pacific moray eel. The following mouth, head, trunk, and tail. The shrimp also were observed moving/swimming; as well as for specific parts cleaned, not appear to be an obligate cleaner like some of its not depend on cleaning as its sole source of nourishment respond differently in cleaning situations. Shrimp behavior rocks; was noted for eels alone, with shrimp and during This study focuses on the cleaning behavior of Lysmata time is spent picking at the substrate in search of food and tropical Atlantic species, in relation to Gymnothorax tropical counterparts. Unlike obligate cleaners it does not with morays was observed for general behaviors: approach wurdemanni and L. grabhami was compared. L.wurdemanni does wurdemanni, a temperate Atlantic species, and L. grabhami, a |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Zoology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 55 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |