Research Projects

1. What happens to reefs without cleaner fish?

2. Do larval fish leave the reef to avoid parasites? 

3. Do cleaner fish control diseases transmitted by parasites?

4. The cleaner fish - client fish symbiosis: a model multispecies mutualism

5. The ecological consequences of fish cleaning behaviour

6. Communication between cleaner fish and their hosts: the role of colour

7. Parasite removal as the cause of cleaning behaviour in client fish

8. The multispecies mutualism between shrimp and fish: biological theory with empirical data

9. ​The patterns in the community structure of parasites in wrasses: an approach at infracommunity and component community levels

10. The parasitic digenean worm (Bucephalidae) found in the cleaning wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus

11. ​Distribution of ectoparasitic gnathiids and haemogregarine blood parasites on the epaulette shark Hemiscyllium ocellatum

12. The effect of the parasitic isopod Anilocra apogonae on the physiology and behaviour of the cardinal fish Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus

13. ​Ecological significance of crab grazing activity in a coral reef ecosystem

14. ​ Evolution of colour variation and species richness in agamid lizards

15. The role of mucus cocoons produced by coral reef fish

16. Parasites of larval and juvenile coral reef fish

17. The effect of micropredators on reef fish from larvae to adulthood

18. The role of ontogenetic colour change in social interactions in reef fish

19. The neurecology of labrid fishes: The importance of vision and other senses in behaviour

20. The ecology of sunscreens in fish mucus

21. Do parasites affect settlement processes in larval fish?

22. The long-term effects of cleaner fish on the coral reef community

23. The role of cleaner fish and damselfish recruitment

24. The ecology of gnathiid isopods

25. Effects of bleaching on gnathiid isopods and cleaning interactions