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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2015
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| 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 |