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SUBMITTER: Gingins S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3652443 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gingins Simon S Werminghausen Johanna J Johnstone Rufus A RA Grutter Alexandra S AS Bshary Redouan R
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20130424 1761
In many instances of cooperation, only one individual has both the potential and the incentive to 'cheat' and exploit its partner. Under these asymmetric conditions, a simple model predicts that variation in the temptation to cheat and in the potential victim's capacity for partner control leads to shifts between exploitation and cooperation. Here, we show that the threat of early termination of an interaction was sufficient to induce cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus to feed selectively again ...[more]