Cleaning symbiosis has been documented extensively in the marine environment over the
past 50 years. We estimate global cleaner diversity comprises 208 fish species from 106 …

Signal theory predicts organisms should evolve signals that are conspicuous to intended
receivers in natural signalling environments. Cleaner shrimps remove ectoparasites from …

The Hippolytidae is the fourth largest family within the Caridea, currently containing over 330
described species in 37 genera, and the classification of this family has been rather …

Recent phylogenetic work (Ashelby et al., 2012) has demonstrated the need for a fresh
appraisal of the systematic status of some Palaemoninae genera. In the present contribution …

Ashelby, CW, Page, TJ, De Grave, S., Hughes, JM & Johnson, ML (2012) Regional scale
speciation reveals multiple invasions of freshwater in Palaemoninae (Decapoda) …

Hyperdiverse animal groups raise intriguing questions regarding the factors that generate
and maintain their diversity. The snapping shrimp genus Alpheus (with> 300 described …

Approximately 280 species of decapod crustaceans live along the west coast of North
America between Puget Sound and Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico. Species of the …

Marine symbiotic Palaemonidae, comprising over 600 species, live in association with
marine invertebrates of different phyla, like Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Porifera, and …

Abstract The 'Tomlinson–Ghiselin'hypothesis (TGh) predicts that outcrossing simultaneous
hermaphroditism (SH) is advantageous when population density is low because the …

The objective of this study was to investigate morphological variation in traits of systematic
relevance and the phylogenetic position, ecology, and reproductive biology of the shrimp …