Cleaner Shrimp Use a Rocking Dance to Advertise Cleaning Service to Clients

Becker, J. H.; Curtis, Lynda; Grutter, Alexandra S.

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.02.067

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“…This sets the stage for various forms of non‐physical, outbidding competition. In the cleaner wrasse L. dimidiatus and in cleaner shrimp Urocaridella spp., ‘tactile dances’ and ‘rocking dances’, respectively, serve to advertise cleaning services to potential clients (Youngbluth 1968; Grutter 2004; Becker et al. 2005) and their rate could be an expression of outbidding competition.…”

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Does Competition for Clients Increase Service Quality in Cleaning Gobies?

Soares¹,

Bshary²,

Cardoso³

et al. 2008

Ethology

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In a biological market, members of one trading class try to outbid each other to gain access to the most valuable partners. Competition within class can thus force individuals to trade goods or services more cheaply, ultimately resulting in conflict (e.g. cheating) over the value of commodities. Cleaning symbioses among fish appear to be good examples of biological markets. However, the existence and effect of outbidding competition among either types of traders (cleaners or clients) have never been tested. We examined whether increasing competition among cleaning gobies (Elacatinus spp.) for access to clients results in outbidding in the form of provision of a better cleaning service. On reefs where fish clients visited cleaning stations less frequently, and thus competition among cleaners was higher, cleaning gobies ingested fewer scales relative to the number of ingested parasites, i.e. they cleaned more honestly. This shift in cleaner behaviour towards greater honesty is consistent with a greater market value of access to clients in the face of competition among cleaners. However, this pattern could have also arisen as a result of differences in ectoparasite availability across reefs and therefore in value of the commodity offered by clients. Experimental manipulations will be required to determine whether cleaning service quality by cleaning gobies was enhanced solely because of competitive outbidding.

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Does Competition for Clients Increase Service Quality in Cleaning Gobies?

Soares¹,

Bshary²,

Cardoso³

et al. 2008

Ethology

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“…In approximations of intraspecific appearance, the viewer was assumed to be 2.5 cm away from the subject, a short but ecologically relevant distance over which intraspecific signalling could occur between individuals at the same cleaning station. To model perception of clients, the viewer was assumed to be 10 cm away, a value based on published measures of cleaner-client interaction distance (Becker et al, 2005;Chapuis and Bshary, 2010). …”

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“…Although ectoparasites vary greatly in size, studies of cleaner shrimp diets suggest that cleaners (Becker et al, 2005;Chen and Huang, 2012;Wicksten, 1995Wicksten, , 2009 feed primarily on small ectoparasites approximately 0.1-2.5 mm in length (Becker and Grutter, 2004;McCammon et al, 2010). For an ectoparasite to be one 'pixel' across to a cleaner shrimp visual system with spatial resolution of 9 deg, the shrimp would have to be 15.8 mm away from a parasite 2.5 mm in length, but 0.63 mm away from a parasite 0.1 mm in length.…”

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“…These three cleaner shrimp species were selected because they are known fish cleaners (Becker et al, 2005;Chen and Huang, 2012;Côté, 2000), are colourful and finely patterned, operate cleaning stations with conspecifics, and live on shallow coral reefs (often <20 m deep), which are spectrally broad, high light intensity environments. We assumed that cleaner shrimp, which display a variety of colours, have colour vision.…”

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Spectral sensitivity, spatial resolution, and temporal resolution and their implications for conspecific signalling in cleaner shrimp

Caves

Frank

Johnsen

2016

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Cleaner shrimp (Decapoda) regularly interact with conspecifics and client reef fish, both of which appear colourful and finely patterned to human observers. However, whether cleaner shrimp can perceive the colour patterns of conspecifics and clients is unknown, because cleaner shrimp visual capabilities are unstudied. We quantified spectral sensitivity and temporal resolution using electroretinography (ERG), and spatial resolution using both morphological (inter-ommatidial angle) and behavioural (optomotor) methods in three cleaner shrimp species: Lysmata amboinensis, Ancylomenes pedersoni and Urocaridella antonbruunii. In all three species, we found strong evidence for only a single spectral sensitivity peak of (mean±s.e.m.) 518±5, 518 ±2 and 533±3 nm, respectively. Temporal resolution in darkadapted eyes was 39±1.3, 36±0.6 and 34±1.3 Hz. Spatial resolution was 9.9±0.3, 8.3±0.1 and 11±0.5 deg, respectively, which is low compared with other compound eyes of similar size. Assuming monochromacy, we present approximations of cleaner shrimp perception of both conspecifics and clients, and show that cleaner shrimp visual capabilities are sufficient to detect the outlines of large stimuli, but not to detect the colour patterns of conspecifics or clients, even over short distances. Thus, conspecific viewers have probably not played a role in the evolution of cleaner shrimp appearance; rather, further studies should investigate whether cleaner shrimp colour patterns have evolved to be viewed by client reef fish, many of which possess triand tetra-chromatic colour vision and relatively high spatial acuity.

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“…Cleaning symbiosis is the removal and subsequent ingestion of ectoparasites, and diseased and injured tissue by cleaning organisms (Losey 1972;Côté 2000); it occurs in both the terrestrial and aquatic environment (Poulin and Grutter 1996;Weeks 2000;Cheney and Côté 2001;Becker et al 2005;Biani et al 2009). It has long been held that cleaning symbioses in the marine environment are mutualistic interactions in which cleaners benefit from the removal of parasites and tissue from their fish clients (Grutter 1996a;Arnal and Côté 2000;Arnal and Morand 2001) and clients benefit from a reduced ectoparasite load (Losey 1979;Gorlick et al 1987;Grutter 1999b).…”

Section: Cleaning Mutualismmentioning

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Parasites and cleaning behaviour in damselfishes

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Pomacentrids (damselfishes) are one of the most common and diverse group of marine fishes found on coral reefs. However, their digenean fauna and cleaning interactions with the bluestreak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, are poorly studied. This thesis explores the digenean trematode fauna in damselfishes from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia and examines several aspects of the role of L. dimidiatus in the recruitment of young damselfishes.My first study aimed to expand our current knowledge of the digenean trematode fauna of damselfishes by examining this group of fishes from Lizard Island on the northern GBR. In a comprehensive study of the digenean trematodes of damselfishes, 358 individuals from 32 species of damselfishes were examined. I found 19 species of digeneans, 54 host/parasite combinations, 18were new host records, and three were new species (Fellodistomidae n. sp., Gyliauchenidae n. sp.and Pseudobacciger cheneyae). Combined molecular and morphological analyses show that Hysterolecitha nahaensis, the single most common trematode, comprises a complex of cryptic species rather than just one species. This work highlights the importance of using both techniques in conjunction in order to identify digenean species. The host-specificity of digeneans within this group of fishes is relatively low. Most of the species possess either euryxenic (infecting multiple related species) or stenoxenic (infecting a diverse range of hosts) specificity, with only a handful of species being convincingly oioxenic (only found in one host species). Overall, the trematode richness in pomacentrid fishes is relatively low compared with that of many other coral reef fish families. The richness is probably best explained by the small size of most pomacentrids. In terms of beta diversity, of the total 23 trematode species having now been reported for the GBR in pomacentrids, just 14 are shared between Heron and Lizard Island. Five species have been recorded only from Lizard Island and four only from Heron Island. A total of 14 species reported from the two sites can be classified as core pomacentrid-specific parasites.I then examined whether the abundance and diversity of damselfish recruits differed on reefs relative to reefs from which cleaner wrasse had been removed for 12 years. Past studies have shown that cleaner wrasse enhance abundance and diversity of adult resident damselfishes (species that are site-attached), however, it is not known whether this effect occurs at recruitment or is driven by post-settlement events such as migration or differential mortality. I characterised the abundance of damselfish recruits on reefs with and without cleaner wrasse for five days in each of three lunar cycles, beginning four days after the new moon (November, December and January). The total abundance of damselfish recruits and specifically two species, Chrysiptera rollandi and P. amboinensis, was higher on reefs with cleaner wrasse than on reefs without. However, overall iii species diversity of damself...

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Cleaner Shrimp Use a Rocking Dance to Advertise Cleaning Service to Clients

Cited by 40 publications

References 22 publications

Does Competition for Clients Increase Service Quality in Cleaning Gobies?

Does Competition for Clients Increase Service Quality in Cleaning Gobies?

Spectral sensitivity, spatial resolution, and temporal resolution and their implications for conspecific signalling in cleaner shrimp

Parasites and cleaning behaviour in damselfishes

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