TY - JOUR
T1 - Symbiotic partner specificity and dependency of two gobies (Apocryptodon punctatus and Acentrogobius sp. A) and four alpheid shrimps inhabiting the temperate estuary of southern Japan
AU - Koyama, Akihiko
AU - Inui, Ryutei
AU - Sawa, Kaito
AU - Onikura, Norio
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank the students of Kyushu University for their generous research assistance. We are grateful to the two anonymous reviewers for their useful advices. Parts of this study were funded by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research-A (15H02456) and B (24310174), challenging Exploratory Research (25660148), JSPS Fellowship (236229), and Program for Leading Graduate Schools (Graduate Education and Research Training Program in Decision Science for a Sustainable Society) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Research Institute of Marine Invertebrates (201415IKU-2, Tokyo).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, The Ichthyological Society of Japan.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - We collected two gobies, Apocryptodon punctatus and Acentrogobius sp. A, and four alpheid shrimps from an estuary in southern Japan, to identify the symbiotic shrimps with gobies and to understand their partner specificity and dependency. Analysis based on generalized linear models identified two specific partners for each goby. A. punctatus frequently coexisted with partners and showed similar habitats, suggesting that this goby might be an obligate mutualist. Acentrogobius sp. A had lower rates of coexistence and appeared in habitats different from one of its partners, suggesting that this goby might be a facultative mutualist.
AB - We collected two gobies, Apocryptodon punctatus and Acentrogobius sp. A, and four alpheid shrimps from an estuary in southern Japan, to identify the symbiotic shrimps with gobies and to understand their partner specificity and dependency. Analysis based on generalized linear models identified two specific partners for each goby. A. punctatus frequently coexisted with partners and showed similar habitats, suggesting that this goby might be an obligate mutualist. Acentrogobius sp. A had lower rates of coexistence and appeared in habitats different from one of its partners, suggesting that this goby might be a facultative mutualist.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10228-016-0535-6
DO - 10.1007/s10228-016-0535-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84976318092
SN - 1341-8998
VL - 64
SP - 131
EP - 138
JO - Ichthyological Research
JF - Ichthyological Research
IS - 1
ER -