Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content

Hosts of brood-parasitic birds must distinguish their own eggs from parasitic mimics, or pay the cost of mistakenly raising a foreign chick. Egg discrimination is easier when different host females of the same species each lay visually distinctive eggs (egg ‘signatures’), which helps to foil mimicry...

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Autores principales: Caves, Eleanor M., Stevens, Martin, Iversen, Edwin S., Spottiswoode, Claire N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2015
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Research Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4590476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26085586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0598

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4590476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26085586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0598

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