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Cleaning mutualism in an Australian estuary: silver batfish services fish clients at cleaning stations, with a summary of brackish water cleaners by Sazima, I.

“…Cleaning symbiosis is one of the most iconic relationships between fishes. The cleaner picks parasites and diseased tissue from the body of so-called clients…”
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The structure of fish follower-feeding associations at three oceanic islands in southwestern Atlantic by Inagaki, K. Y., Mendes, T. C., Quimbayo, J. P., Cantor, M., Sazima, I.

“…Structurally complex and competitive environments such as reef habitats may promote alternative behavioural feeding tactics in fishes. An understudied…”
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Behavioural defences of anurans: an overview by Toledo, L.F, Sazima, I, Haddad, C.F.B

“…Among vertebrates, defensive behaviours have been reviewed for fishes, salamanders, reptiles, birds, and mammals, but not yet for anuran amphibians. Although…”
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Cleaning interactions at the southern limit of tropical reef fishes in the Western Atlantic by Quimbayo, J. P., Schlickmann, O. R. C., Floeter, S. R., Sazima, I.

“…Cleaning associations are one of the most dynamic and complex mutualistic interactions of reef environments and are often influenced by local conditions. In…”
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Cleaning interactions at the only atoll in the South Atlantic by Quimbayo, J. P., Nunes, L. T., Ozekoski, R., Floeter, S. R., Morais, R. A., Fontoura, L., Bonaldo, R. M., Ferreira, C. E. L., Sazima, I.

“…In marine ecosystems, cleaning is a mutualistic relationship in which so-called cleaners remove ectoparasites, diseased tissue, or mucus from the body of their…”
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Geographic expansion of the invasive mud sleeper Butis koilomatodon (Perciformes: Eleotridae) in the western Atlantic Ocean by Macieira, R. M., Giarrizzo, T., Gasparini, J. L., Sazima, I.

“…The Indo‐Pacific mud sleeper Butis koilomatodon (Eleotridae) is recorded for the first time in the south‐western Atlantic Ocean, based on 23 specimens caught…”
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Marine Ornamental Trade in Brazil by Gasparini, J. L., Floeter, S. R., Ferreira, C. E. L., Sazima, I.

“…Brazil is one of the five leading exporting countries of tropical aquarium fishes in the world, and the interest in marine ornamental organisms has increased…”
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Out of the mainstream: humpback whale calving site and associated fishes at an oceanic island off Brazil by Lucena, M. B., Barbosa, M. C., Sissini, M. N., Sazima, I.

“…In the Southwestern Atlantic, the coastal Abrolhos Bank off Brazil is the most important breeding and calving site for humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae,…”
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Swift swimming reef fish as hosts of small juvenile sharksuckers by Brunnschweiler, J. M, Sazima, I

“…Sharksuckers, Echeneis naucrates, attach to a wide variety of hosts (OToole 2002; Brunnschweiler and Sazima 2008). Small juvenile sharksuckers are thought to…”
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presumed case of functional convergence between the flowers of Schizolobium parahyba (Fabaceae) and species of Malpighiaceae by Sazima, I, Pinheiro, Mardiore, Sazima, Marlies

“…Flowers of Malpighiaceae have a flag petal with a sturdy base that Centridini bees clasp with their mandibles to free their legs and thus be able to harvest…”
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Cleaners from the underground by Gasparini, J. L., Luiz, O. J., Sazima, I.

“…Cleaning activity by juveniles of the endemic Saint Pauls Gregory, Stegastes sanctipauli, recorded while watching schools of two other pomacentrid species,…”
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First record of cleaning by a triplefin blenny in the Tropical Pacific by Quimbayo, J. P, Zapata, F. A, Floeter, S. R, Bessudo, S, Sazima, I

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Octopus mimicking its follower reef fish by Krajewski, J. P., Bonaldo, R. M., Sazima, C., Sazima†, I.

“…We describe a possible example of social mimicry between Octopus insularis and the small grouper Cephalopholis fulva, which frequently associate during…”
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Dentition damage in parrotfishes feeding on hard surfaces at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, southwest Atlantic Ocean by Bonaldo, R. M., Krajewski, J. P., Sazima, C., Sazima, I.

“…Parrotfishes (Scaridae) are renowned for their beak-like dentition, which enables them to bite on coralline and rocky surfaces to feed on algae and detritus…”
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Meals for two: foraging activity of the butterflyfish Chaetodon striatus (Perciformes) in southeast Brazil by Bonaldo, R M, Krajewski, J P, Sazima, I

“…The banded butterflyfish (Chaetodon striatus) from the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic is a territorial, diurnal forager on benthic invertebrates. It…”
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Cleaning by the wrasse Thalassoma noronhanum , with two records of predation by its grouper client Cephalopholis fulva by Francini-Filho, R B, Moura, R L, Sazima, I

“…The Noronha wrasse Thalassoma noronhanum was recorded cleaning 19 client fish species at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off north-eastern Brazil. The…”
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Chirocentrodon bleekerianus (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Pristigasteridae), a small predaceous herring with folded and distinctively oriented prey in stomach by Sazima, C, Moura, R L, Sazima, I

“…Predaceous fish-eating species of the order Clupeiformes have a large mouth with well-developed teeth, and reach the greatest sizes within their families (up…”
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First record of Polyprion oxygeneios(Perciformes: Polyprionidae) for the south-west Atlantic and a northernmost range extension by Barreiros, J. P., Machado, L., Hostim-Silva, M., Sazima, I., Heemstra, P. C.

“…The occurrence of Polyprion oxygeneios(Perciformes: Polyprionidae) is recorded for the first in the south‐west Atlantic. Twenty specimens were caught off Rio…”
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Cleaning by the wrasse Thalassoma noronhanum, with two records of predation by its grouper client Cephalopholis fulva by Francini-Filho, R. B., Moura, R. L., Sazima, I.

“…The Noronha wrasse Thalassoma noronhanum was recorded cleaning 19 client fish species at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, o. north–eastern Brazil. The…”
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The sweet jelly of Combretum lanceolatum flowers (Combretaceae): a cornucopia resource for bird pollinators in the Pantanal, western Brazil by Sazima, M., Vogel, S., do Prado, A. L., de Oliveira, D. M., Franz, G., Sazima, I.

“…The pollination biology of the neotropical scandent shrub Combretum lanceolatum was studied in the seasonally-flooded Pantanal region in western Brazil. This…”
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