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单词 Cleaning symbiosis
释义

Cleaning symbiosis

中文百科

清除共生

鸟类在大型哺乳动物的背面有清除行为

清除共生英语:Cleaning symbiosis),是一种互利共生,为其中一方(清除者)吃掉在另一方(被清除者)皮肤上的寄生虫和其它污垢。清除共生常见于海洋鱼类,一些品种的小型清洁鱼(特别是隆头鱼科,但也有其他种生物),是专门以清洁较大的鱼类和其他海洋动物为其食物来源。其他清除共生也见于鸟类和哺乳动物之间。

清除共生行为最初是由古希腊历史学家希罗多德在大约公元前420年描述,但他举的例子(鸟类服务鳄鱼)似乎很少发生。

生物学家已经争论了清除共生的分类三十多年。有些人认为,清除共生代表无私的合作,基本上属于纯共生。其他(如罗伯特·特里弗斯)则认为,这属于互惠性利他主义的表现。还有一些人认为,清除共生的行为是片面的剥削,为寄生的一种形式。

英语百科

Cleaning symbiosis 清除共生

Cleaning symbiosisCleaning behaviour of yellow-billed oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) on the back of a large mammalGiant Moray eel being cleaned by a bluestreak cleaner wrasse
Herodotus asserted that the trochilus bird, possibly a sandpiper, was able to enter the mouth of the Nile crocodile in what would now be called a cleaning symbiosis. Drawing by Henry Scherren, 1906
Small, long, blue-striped cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) servicing a big eye squirrelfish (Priacanthus hamrur)

Cleaning symbiosis is a mutually beneficial association (symbiosis) between two species, where one (the cleaner) removes and eats parasites and other materials from the surface of the other (the client). Cleaning symbiosis is well-known among marine fish, where some small species of cleaner fish, notably wrasses but also species in other genera, are specialised to feed almost exclusively by cleaning larger fish and other marine animals. Other cleaning symbioses exist between birds and mammals, and in other groups.

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