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How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences

Arms races between avian brood parasites and their hosts often result in parasitic mimicry of host eggs, to evade rejection. Once egg mimicry has evolved, host defences could escalate in two ways: (i) hosts could improve their level of egg discrimination; and (ii) negative frequency-dependent select...

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Autores principales: Spottiswoode, Claire N., Stevens, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3189372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0401