Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Underwater buffet: Who wants the ectoparasites? <a href="https://oceanbites.org/underwater-buffet-who-wants-the-ectoparasites/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oceanbites.org/underwater-buff</span><span class="invisible">et-who-wants-the-ectoparasites/</span></a> </p><p>Functional diversity among <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CoralReef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoralReef</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fishes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fishes</span></a> as consumers of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ectoparasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ectoparasites</span></a> <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-023-02459-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/s00338-023-02459-4</span></a> </p><p>"Cleaner fishes are crucial to maintaining <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fish</span></a> community health by eating parasites off host fishes. Cleaners are especially important since <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/parasitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parasitism</span></a> is super common in coral reefs, affecting the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a> on both individual and community levels."</p>