Beyond Symbiosis: Cleaner Shrimp Clean Up in Culture

Beyond Symbiosis: Cleaner Shrimp Clean Up in Culture

Cleaner organisms exhibit a remarkable natural behaviour where they consume ectoparasites attached to "client" organisms. While this behaviour can be utilized as a natural method of parasitic disease control (or biocontrol), it is not known whether cleaner organisms can also limit reinfection from parasite eggs and larvae within the environment. Here we show that cleaner shrimp, Lysmata amboine...

Cleaner Power in India: Towards a Clean-Coal-Technology Roadmap

Cleaner and Greener Doesn't Always Mean Clean and Green

Variation in partner benefits in a shrimp—sea anemone symbiosis

Symbiotic interactions, where two species occur in close physical proximity for the majority of the participants' lifespans, may constrain the fitness of one or both of the participants. Host choice could result in lineage divergence in symbionts if fitness benefits vary across the interaction with hosts. Symbiotic interactions are common in the marine environment, particularly in the most dive...

Clean air in Europe: beyond the horizon?

The current EU limit values for PM2.5 and PM10 are far too high http://ow.ly/E6HUR When the European Union (EU) set its first Air Quality Limit Values for particulate matter in outdoor air (particulate matter <10 μm in diameter (PM10)) back in 1999, it promised to set a much stricter limit by 2010 [1]. The goal at the time was for an annual limit value of 20 μg·m, equivalent to the World Health...