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Common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) affect the bacterial diversity of the eggshells of their great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) hosts

The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is an avian brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of other bird species, where these hosts incubate the parasitic eggs, feed and rear the nestlings. The appearance of a cuckoo egg in a host nest may change the bacterial community in the nest. This may have...

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Autores principales: Geltsch, Nikoletta, Elek, Zoltán, Manczinger, László, Vágvölgyi, Csaba, Moskát, Csaba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5774785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29351548
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191364