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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |