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Color plumage polymorphism and predator mimicry in brood parasites

BACKGROUND: Plumage polymorphism may evolve during coevolution between brood parasites and their hosts if rare morph(s), by contravening host search image, evade host recognition systems better than common variant(s). Females of the parasitic common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) are a classic example of...

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Autores principales: Trnka, Alfréd, Grim, Tomáš
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3658874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23663311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-25