Fecal sacs attract insects to the nest and provoke an activation of the immune system of nestlings

BACKGROUND: Nest sanitation is a widespread but rarely studied behavior in birds. The most common form of nest sanitation behavior, the removal of nestling feces, has focused the discussion about which selective pressures determine this behavior. The parasitism hypothesis, which states that nestling...

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Autores principales: Ibáñez-Álamo, Juan Diego, Ruiz-Raya, Francisco, Rodríguez, Laura, Soler, Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4719217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0135-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4719217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0135-3

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