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Differently sized cuckoos pose different threats to hosts

Hole-nesting tits Parus spp. have been classified as “unsuitable” hosts for cuckoo parasitism because cuckoos cannot enter a cavity if the entrance is too small. However, Chinese tits could reject alien eggs and egg ejection rate increased with the local diversity of parasitic cuckoo species. Antipa...

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Autores principales: Yu, Jiangping, E, Mingju, Sun, Wei, Liang, Wei, Wang, Haitao, Møller, Anders Pape
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32440285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoz049