Are Cuckoos Maximizing Egg Mimicry by Selecting Host Individuals with Better Matching Egg Phenotypes?

BACKGROUND: Avian brood parasites and their hosts are involved in complex offence-defense coevolutionary arms races. The most common pair of reciprocal adaptations in these systems is egg discrimination by hosts and egg mimicry by parasites. As mimicry improves, more advanced host adaptations evolve...

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Autores principales: Antonov, Anton, Stokke, Bård G., Fossøy, Frode, Ranke, Peter S., Liang, Wei, Yang, Canchao, Moksnes, Arne, Shykoff, Jacqui, Røskaft, Eivin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3285637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22384060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031704

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3285637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22384060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031704

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