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Ancient origin and maternal inheritance of blue cuckoo eggs

Maternal inheritance via the female-specific W chromosome was long ago proposed as a potential solution to the evolutionary enigma of co-existing host-specific races (or ‘gentes') in avian brood parasites. Here we report the first unambiguous evidence for maternal inheritance of egg colouration...

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Autores principales: Fossøy, Frode, Sorenson, Michael D, Liang, Wei, Ekrem, Torbjørn, Moksnes, Arne, Møller, Anders P, Rutila, Jarkko, Røskaft, Eivin, Takasu, Fugo, Yang, Canchao, Stokke, Bård G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4729921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26754355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10272