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Avian brood parasitism in Italy: another perspective
Avocetta, 2020 We present a quantitative analysis of the data reported in the only published review of parasitism frequency on hosts of Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus in a Mediterranean area. We first eliminated a bias potentially introduced by the method by which data
Daniela Campobello, Spencer G. Sealy
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iScience, 2023 Summary: As the frontline defense against avian brood parasitism, nest defense is important in reducing nest parasitism and increasing host fitness.
Longwu Wang +5 more
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The Evolution of Predator Resemblance in Avian Brood Parasites [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Predators have profound effects on prey behavior and some adult brood parasites use predator resemblance to exploit the antipredator defenses of their hosts.
Jennifer E. York, Jennifer E. York
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Avian Research, 2022 Living and/or non-living animal models are often used as stimuli to observe the behavioral responses of the target animals. In the past, parasites, predators, and harmless controls have been used to test host anti-parasitism defense behavior, and their ...
Xiangyang Chen +3 more
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Quintuple parasitism of a great reed warbler nest by common cuckoos
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Multiple parasitism in obligate avian brood parasites occurs when several brood parasitic females lay their eggs in the nest of the same host. While multiple parasitism is common in the highly social, nonevicting cowbird species (Molothrus sp.), in which
Attila Marton
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The limits of egg recognition: testing acceptance thresholds of American robins in response to decreasingly egg-shaped objects in the nest [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Some hosts of avian brood parasites reduce or eliminate the costs of parasitism by removing foreign eggs from the nest (rejecter hosts). In turn, even acceptor hosts typically remove most non-egg-shaped objects from the nest, including broken shells ...
Mark E. Hauber +4 more
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Coevolution of acoustical communication between obligate avian brood parasites and their hosts
Avian Research, 2020 The mutually antagonistic processes producing adaptations and counter-adaptations in avian brood parasites and their hosts provide a model system for the study of coevolution; this topic has long been an area of focus in ornithology and evolutionary ...
Jiaojiao Wang, Qihong Li, Canchao Yang
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Coevolution in action: disruptive selection on egg colour in an avian brood parasite and its host. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Trait polymorphism can evolve as a consequence of frequency-dependent selection. Coevolutionary interactions between hosts and parasites may lead to selection on both to evolve extreme phenotypes deviating from the norm, through disruptive selection.Here,
Canchao Yang +10 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Variation in avian reproductive strategies is often studied from a comparative perspective, since even closely-related taxa differ greatly in the degree of polygyny, extra-pair paternity (EPP) or intra-specific brood-parasitism.
Patricia Celis +2 more
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Common cuckoo females remove more conspicuous eggs during parasitism [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Avian obligate brood parasites gain an advantage by removing the eggs of the cuckoos who have already visited the nest, which can increase the chances of survival for their offspring.
Longwu Wang +3 more
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