...Vikram B. Baliga; Ze'ev J. Bernstein; Shivani Sundaram; Rita S. Mehta ABSTRACT Cleaning, a dietary strategy in which mucus or ectoparasites are removed and consumed off other taxa, is performed facultatively or obligately in a variety of species. We explored whether species in the Labridae (wrasses...

...Guillermo J. Amador; David L. Hu ABSTRACT Getting dirty is a fundamental problem, and one for which there are few solutions, especially across the enormous range of animal size. How do both a honeybee and a squirrel get clean? In this Review, we discuss two broad types of cleaning, considered from...

...Vikram B. Baliga; Rita S. Mehta In fishes, cleaning is a mutualistic behavior wherein a species will remove and consume ectoparasites from other organisms. More than two-thirds of cleaner fishes display this behavior predominately as juveniles and discontinue cleaning as adults; such species...