link to Complete list of publications

Theory/conceptual

Bshary R & Bronstein JL (2004)
            Game structures in mutualisms: what can the evidence tell us about the
            kind of models we need?
            Advances in the Study of Behavior 34, 59-101 pdf

Johnstone RA & Bshary R (2004)
           The evolution of spiteful behaviour.
           Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B271, 1917-1922 pdf

Bshary R &  Noë R (2003)
           Biological markets: the ubiquitous influence of partner choice on the
           dynamics of cleaner fish-client reef fish interactions.
           In: "Genetic and cultural evolution of cooperation (Hammerstein P, ed)
           pp 167-184. MIT Press, Cambridge: Dahlem Workshop report pdf

Johnstone RA & Bshary R (2002)
           From parasitism to mutualism: partner control in asymmetric
           interactions.
           Ecology Letters 5, 634-639

  Evolution of cooperation in cleaning mutualism

Bshary R & Grutter A S (2006)
           Image scoring causes cooperation in a cleaning mutualism.
           Nature 441 (7096), 975-978 pdf

Bshary R & D'Souza A (2005)
          Cooperation in communication networks: indirect reciprocity in
          interactions between cleaner fish and client reef fish.
          In: Communication networks (McGregor P, ed).
          Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pdf

Bshary R & Grutter AS (2005)
           Punishment and partner switching cause cooperative behaviour
           in a cleaning mutualism.
           Biology Letters 1, 396-399 pdf

Grutter AS & Bshary R (2003)
           Cleaner wrasse prefer client mucus: support for partner control
           mechanisms in cleaning interactions.
           (Biology Letters) Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (Suppl.) 270, 242-244 pdf

Bshary R (2002)
          Biting cleaner fish use altruism to deceive image scoring reef fish.
          Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 269, 2087-2093
          pdf

Bshary R (2002)
          Building up relationships in asymmetric co-operation games between
          the cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus and client fish.
          Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 52, 365-371 pdf

Bshary R & Grutter AS (2002)
          Experimental evidence that partner choice is a driving force in the payoff
          distribution among cooperators or mutualists: the cleaner fish case.
          Ecology Letters 5, 130-136 pdf

Animal Cognition

Tebbich S & Bshary R (2004)
          Finch physics: cognitive abilities related to tool-use in the woodpecker
          finch Cactospiza pallida.
          Animal Behaviour 67, 689-697 pdf

Bshary R, Wickler W & Fricke H (2002)
          Fisch cognition: a primate's eye view
          Animal Cognition 5, 1-13 pdf

Bshary R & Würth M (2001)
          Cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus manipulate client reef fish by providing
          tactile stimulation. 
          Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 1495-1501 pdf

Bshary R (2001)
          Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana, adjust their anti-predator response
          behaviour to human hunting strategies.
          Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology 50, 251-256 pdf