Asymmetric cheating opportunities and partner control in a cleaner fish mutualism

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Cleaner shrimp do clean (2004, methodology): “The surgeonfish Ctenochaetus striatus was used as this species has been used successfully as a model species in experiments involving parasites and the cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus (Bshary and Grutter 2002b).”
Biological Markets : The Ubiquitous Influence of Partner Choice on the Dynamics of Cleaner Fish - Client Reef Fish Interactions (2003, unknown): “There is experimental evidence that client jolts are not related to the removal of parasites, even to the contrary, clients jolt more frequently the less parasite infested they are (Bshary & Grutter 2002 b).”
Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans (2011, background): “…that don't help (Mulder & Langmore, 1993), cleaner fish clients punishing and avoid cleaners who take a bite of their tissue (Bshary, 2002; Bshary & Grutter, 2002; Bshary & Schäffer, 2002), soybeans cutting off the supply of oxygen to rhizobia bacteria that fail to supply them with…”