Host responses to interspecific brood parasitism: a by-product of adaptations to conspecific parasitism?

BACKGROUND: Why have birds evolved the ability to reject eggs? Typically, foreign egg discrimination is interpreted as evidence that interspecific brood parasitism (IP) has selected for the host’s ability to recognize and eliminate foreign eggs. Fewer studies explore the alternative hypothesis that...

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Autores principales: Samas, Peter, Hauber, Mark E, Cassey, Phillip, Grim, Tomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24834103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-34

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24834103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-34

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