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Aggressive hosts are undeterred by a cuckoo's hawk mimicry, but probably make good foster parents

Parasites face a trade-off if the highest quality hosts are also most resistant to exploitation. For brood parasites, well-defended host nests may be both harder to parasitize and harder to predate, leading to better survival of parasitic chicks. This trade-off could be accentuated if brood-parasiti...

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Autores principales: Attwood, Mairenn C., Lund, Jess, Nwaogu, Chima J., Moya, Collins, Spottiswoode, Claire N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9811629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36598020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1506