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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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| 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 |