The global structure of marine cleaning mutualistic networks

# Global-Cleaning-Networks

The data sets available here are parts of the following article:

Quimbayo JP, Cantor M, Dias MS, Grutter AS, Gingins S, Becker JHA, Floeter SR. (2018) The global structure of marine cleaning mutualism networks. Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12780.

Description

We combined field and literature data to test if recurrent patterns in mutualistic networks—nestedness,
modularity—describe the distributions of marine cleaning interactions. Nested network structures suggest 
some cleaner species interact with many clients while the others clean fewer, predictable subsets of these clients; 
modular network structures suggest cleaners and clients interact with defined, densely-connected subsets of species. 

All datasets are binary matrices indicating cleaning interaction between cleaner species (columns) 
and client species (rows) in 28 marine habitats across of 11 marine biogeographical provinces defined for reef fish fauna.
These were the Caribbean, the Southwestern, Central, North and Eastern Atlantic, the Western Indian,
the Central Indo-Pacific and the Southwestern, Central, Northeastern and Tropical Eastern Pacific.

Each element of these matrices equal 1 when the cleaner species i interacts with the client species j, 
and 0 otherwise. A cleaning event is defined as the observation of a cleaner removing ectoparasites, 
diseased tissue, and/or mucus from the body surface, gills or buccal cavity of the clients.

Data are provided in the form of comma separated values files (csv), one for each of the 28 localities.
Please refer to Table S1 in the electronic supplementary material of this article for further details

If you use any dataset please cite the article above and the original reference for the data 
set as described below.

CARIBBEAN PROVINCE

File: Barbados.cvs
Reference: Whiteman EA, Côté IM. 2002 
Cleaning activity of two Caribbean cleaning gobies: intra- and interspecific comparisons. 
J. Fish Biol. 60, 1443–1458. (doi:10.1006/jfbi.2002.1947)

File: Bonaire.cvs
Reference: Wicksten MK. 1998 
Behavior of cleaners and their client fishes at Bonaire Netherlands Antilles. 
J. Nat. Hist. 32, 13–30. 

File: Curacao.cvs
Reference: Titus, B.M., Vondriska, C. & Daly, M. 2017 & This study
Comparative behavioural observations demonstrate the “cleaner” shrimp Periclimenes yucatanicus engages in true 
symbiotic cleaning interactions. 
Royal Society Open Science, 4, 170078.

File: Tobago.cvs
Reference: Dunkley, K., Cable J. & Perkins S.E. 2018 & This study 
The selective cleaning behavior of juvenile blue-headed wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) in the Caribbean. 
Behavioural Processes. 147: 5–12.

File: StCroix.cvs
Reference: Johnson WS, Ruben P. 1988 
Cleaning behavior of Bodiunus rufus, Thalassomu bifasciatum, Gobiosoma evelynae, and Periclimenes pedersoni along a depth gradient at Salt River Submarine Canyon, St . Croix. Environ. Biol. Fishes 23, 225–232.

SOUTHWESTERN ATLANTIC

File: Abrolhos.cvs
Reference: Sazima C. 2002 
Atividade de limpeza de duas espécies sintópicas de peixes limpadores e 
diversidade de seus clientes em Abrolhos, Bahia. 

File: Noronha.cvs
Reference: Francini-Filho RB, Sazima I. 2007 & This study
A comparative study of cleaning activity of two reef fishes at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Tropical West Atlantic. 
Environ. Biol. Fishes 83, 213–220. (doi:10.1007/s10641-007-9322-6)

File: Rocas.cvs
Reference: Quimbayo JP, Nunes LT, Ozekoski R, Floeter SR, Morais RA, Fontoura L, Bonaldo RM, Ferreira CEL, Sazima I. 2017
Cleaning interactions at the only atoll in the South Atlantic. 
Environ. Biol. Fishes 100, 865–875. (doi:10.1007/s10641-017-0612-3)

File: SantaCatarina.cvs
Reference:Quimbayo, J.P., Schlickmann, O.C., Floeter, S.R. & Sazima I 2018. 
Cleaning interactions at the southern limit of tropical reef fishes in the Western Atlantic. 
Environmental Biology of Fishes. doi: 10.1007/s10641-018-0768-5.

File: StPaulsRocks.cvs
Reference: This study; Quimbayo JP, Cantor M, Dias MS, Grutter AS, Gingins S, Becker JHA, Floeter SR.
The global structure of marine cleaning mutualism

File: Trindade.cvs
Reference: This study; Quimbayo JP, Cantor M, Dias MS, Grutter AS, Gingins S, Becker JHA, Floeter SR.
The global structure of marine cleaning mutualism

CENTRAL ATLANTIC

File: Ascension.cvs
Reference: Morais RA, Brown J, Ferreira CEL, Floeter SR, Quimbayo JP, Rocha LA, Sazima I. 2017 
Mob rulers and part-time cleaners: two reef fish associations at the isolated Ascension Island. 
J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. United Kingdom 97, 799–811. (doi:10.1017/S0025315416001041).

NORTH ATLANTIC

File: Banyuls.cvs 
Reference: Zander CD, Sötje I. 2002 
Seasonal and geographical differences in cleaner fish activity in the Mediterranean Sea. 
Helgol. Mar. Reser 55, 232–241. (doi:10.1007/s101520100084)

File: Azores.cvs
Reference: Narvaez P, Furtado M, Neto A, Moniz I, Azevedo J, Soares M. 2015 
Temperate facultative cleaner wrasses selectively remove ectoparasites from their client-fish in the Azores. 
Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 540, 217–226. (doi:10.3354/meps11522)

EASTERN ATLANTIC

File: Canarias.cvs
Reference: Van Tassell JL, Brito A, Bortone SA. 1994 
Cleaning Behavior among marine fishes and invertebrates in the Canary Islands. 
Cybium 18, 117–127. 

File: CapeVerde.cvs
Reference: Quimbayo JP, Floeter SR, Noguchi R, Rangel CA, Gasparini JL, Sampaio CLS, Ferreira CEL, Rocha LA. 2012
Cleaning mutualism in Santa Luzia (Cape Verde Archipelago) and São Tomé Islands, Tropical Eastern Atlantic. Mar. 
Biodivers. Rec. 5, e118. (doi:10.1017/S175526721200108X)

File: Principe.cvs
Reference: This study; Quimbayo JP, Cantor M, Dias MS, Grutter AS, Gingins S, Becker JHA, Floeter SR.
The global structure of marine cleaning mutualism

File: SaoTome.cvs
Reference: Quimbayo JP, Floeter SR, Noguchi R, Rangel CA, Gasparini JL, Sampaio CLS, Ferreira CEL, Rocha LA. 2012
Cleaning mutualism in Santa Luzia (Cape Verde Archipelago) and São Tomé Islands, Tropical Eastern Atlantic. 
Mar. Biodivers. Rec. 5, e118. (doi:10.1017/S175526721200108X)

WESTERN INDIAN
File: RedSea.cvs
Reference: Barbu, L., Guinand, C., Bergmüller, R., Alvarez, N. & Bshary, R. 2011 & This study
Cleaning wrasse species vary with respect to dependency on the mutualism and behavioural adaptations in interactions. 
Animal Behaviour, 82, 1067–1074.

CENTRAL INDO-PACIFIC

File: KimbeBay.cvs
Reference 1: Becker, J.H.A. 2006 
Interactions between cleaner shrimp and their client fishes on coral reefs. 
Ph.D. thesis, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, 154 pp. 

Reference 2: Grutter A.S. & Feeney W.E. 2016 
Equivalent cleaning in a juvenile facultative and obligate cleaning wrasse: an insight into the evolution of cleaning in labrids? 
Coral Reefs. 35: 991–997. doi:10.1007/s00338-016-1460-x

File: LizardIsland.cvs
Reference 1: Becker, J.H.A. & Grutter, A.S. 2004 
Cleaner shrimp do clean. 
Coral Reefs, 23, 515–520.

Reference 2: Grutter, A.S. & Poulin, R. 1998 
Intraspecific and interspecific relationships between host size and the abundance of parasitic larval gnathiid isopods
on coral reef fishes. 
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 164, 263–271.

SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC

File: AlthorpeIsland.cvs
Reference: Shepherd, S.A., Teale, J. & Muirhead, D. 2005
Cleaning symbiosis among inshore fishes at Althorpe Island, South Australia and elsewhere. 
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 129, 193–201.

File: NewZealand.cvs
Reference: Ayling,  A. M. & Grace, R. V. 1971
Cleaning symbiosis among New Zealand fishes. 
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 5, 205–218.

NORTHEASTERN PACIFIC

File: LaJolla.cvs
Reference: Hobson, E.S. 1971
Cleaning symbiosis among California inshore fishes. 
Fishery Bulletin, 69, 491–523.

TROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC

File: Galápagos.cvs
Reference: This study; Quimbayo JP, Cantor M, Dias MS, Grutter AS, Gingins S, Becker JHA, Floeter SR.
The global structure of marine cleaning mutualism

File: Gorgona.cvs
Reference 1: Rodríguez-Moreno M. 2005
Interacciones y patrones diarios de actividad de limpieza en peces de un arrecife coralino de la Isla Gorgona. 
Departamento de Biologia, BSc thesis, Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia.

Reference 2: Quimbayo, J.P., & Zapata, F.A. 2018 
Cleaning interactions by gobies on a Tropical Eastern Pacific coral reef. 
Journal of Fish Biology. doi:10.1111/jfb.13573.

File: Malpelo.cvs
Quimbayo, J.P., Dias, M.S., Schlickmann, O.C. & Mendes, T.C. 2017 
Fish cleaning interactions on a remote island from the Tropical Eastern Pacific.
Marine Biodiversity, 47, 603–608.

All R codes for reproducing analyses are available from the authors on request. 

Any additional queries should be directed to the corresponding author 
Juan P. Quimbayo (quimbayo.j.p@gmail.com)

The release of this data does not exempt those who reuse the data from 
following community norms for scholarly communication, in particular from citation
of this paper and the original data authors as detailed above.