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ArticleOecologia2019

Changes in local free-living parasite populations in response to cleaner manipulation over 12 years.

A S Grutter, S P Blomberg, S Box, R Bshary, O Ho, E M P Madin, E C McClure, M G Meekan, J M Murphy, M A Richardson and 4 more

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Article in Oecologia, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

A S GrutterSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia. a.grutter@uq.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1688-2821
S P BlombergSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia.
S BoxRare, 1310 N. Courthouse Road Suite 110, Arlington, VA, 22201, USA.
R BsharyDepartment of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Emile-Argand, 11, Neuchâtel, 2000, Switzerland.
O HoSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia.
E M P MadinDepartment of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
E C McClureSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia.
M G MeekanAustralian Institute of Marine Science, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.
J M MurphySchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia.
M A RichardsonSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia.
P C SikkelDepartment of Biological Sciences and Environmental Sciences Program, Arkansas State University, State University, Jonesboro, AR, 72467, USA.
C A SimsSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia.
D SunSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia.
R R WarnerDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA.
The University of Queensland · AUArkansas State University · USAustralian Institute of Marine Science · AUUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · USUniversity of Hawaii System · USUniversity of Neuchâtel · CH

Funding

Australian Research Council A00105175Australian Research Council A19937078Australian Research Council ARCFEL010GAustralian Research Council DP0557058Australian Research Council DP120102415National Science Foundation OCE1536794Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation SWR22012Swiss Science Foundation 3100A0120552
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Predation on parasites is an important ecological process, but few experimental studies have examined the long-term impacts on the prey. Cleaner fish prey upon large numbers and selectively feed on the larger individuals of the ectoparasitic stage of gnathiid isopods. Removal of cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus for 1.5-12.5 years negatively affects coral reef fishes, but the mechanism is unclear. A reduction in local parasite populations or the size of individual parasites would benefit all susceptible fishes. We tested whether cleaner presence reduces local gnathiid populations using 18 patch-reefs distributed between two sites (both at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef) which were maintained cleaner-free or undisturbed for 12 years. Using emergence traps (1 m

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IsopodaParasitesPerciformesAnimalsCoral ReefsFishesCleaning mutualismCoral reefsFish parasitesGnathiid isopodsPredator–prey interaction

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PMID31267237
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