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Multiple origins and strong phenotypic convergence in fish-cleaning palaemonid shrimp lineages.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jul 2018
Horká Ivona, De Grave Sammy, Fransen Charles H J M, Petrusek Adam, Ďuriš Zdeněk
Abstract excerpt
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 evolutionarily independent origins of fish cleaning symbioses within the family Palaemonidae based on a phylogenetic analysis and the ancestral state reconstruction of 68 species, including 13 fish-cleaners from the genera Ancylomenes,...
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