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Continuous Variation Rather than Specialization in the Egg Phenotypes of Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) Parasitizing Two Sympatric Reed Warbler Species

The evolution of brood parasitism has long attracted considerable attention among behavioural ecologists, especially in the common cuckoo system. Common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) are obligatory brood parasites, laying eggs in nests of passerines and specializing on specific host species. Specialized...

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Autores principales: Drobniak, Szymon M., Dyrcz, Andrzej, Sudyka, Joanna, Cichoń, Mariusz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25180796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106650