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Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds

Egg rejection is an effective and widespread antiparasitic defense to eliminate foreign eggs from the nests of hosts of brood parasitic birds. Several lines of observational and critical experimental evidence support a role for learning by hosts in the recognition of parasitic versus own eggs; speci...

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Autores principales: Xu, Kuangyi, Servedio, Maria R, Winnicki, Sarah K, Moskat, Csaba, Hoover, Jeffrey P, Turner, Abbigail M, Hauber, Mark E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10693006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38045722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrad041