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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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| 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 |