Pairs of cooperating cleaner fish provide better service quality than singletons

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2008-10-16

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature07184PMID 18923522
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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