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Avian hippocampus: Recent advances in anatomy and physiological functions

Avian Research
The avian hippocampus, akin to its mammalian counterpart, plays a critical role in cognitive and physiological processes despite notable structural differences.
Juyong Li, Jing-An Liu, Limin Wang, Dongming Li   +3 more
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Use of noninvasive 'bug-eggs' to enable comparative inferences on genetic mating system with and without parental information: A study in a cattle egret colony.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Colonial waterbirds such as herons, egrets and spoonbills exhibit ecological characteristics that could have promoted the evolution of conspecific brood parasitism and extra-pair copulation.
Carolina Isabel Miño, Elaine Dantas de Souza, Emmanuel Moralez-Silva, Talita Alvarenga Valdes, Vera Lúcia Cortiço Corrêa Rodrigues, Sílvia Nassif Del Lama   +5 more
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Phenotypic correlates between clock genes and phenology among populations of Diederik cuckoo, Chrysococcyx caprius

Ecology and Evolution
The Diederik cuckoo, Chrysococcyx caprius, is a small Afrotropical bird in the family Cuculidae. It is taxonomically related to 13 other species within the genus Chrysococcyx and is migratory in sub‐Saharan Africa.
L. S. Le Clercq, V. Phetla, S. T. Osinubi, A. Kotzé, J. P. Grobler, D. L. Dalton   +5 more
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Precisely targeting host activity for parasitism by Common Cuckoos

Avian Research
The evolution of parasitic strategies through tracking host life-history patterns represents a key adaptive trait in avian brood parasites. However, when hosts successfully exploit human-modified environments—such as diverse and concealed nesting sites ...
Guo Zhong, Guixia Wan, Longwu Wang, Wei Liang   +3 more
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Asian koel rapidly locates host breeding in novel nest sites

Ecology and Evolution
Avian brood parasites depend upon locating host nests to lay their eggs. However, how brood parasites locate host nests and select the nests for parasitism remains poorly studied.
Mominul Islam Nahid, Peter S. Ranke, Wei Liang   +2 more
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Begging and cowbirds: brood parasites make hosts scream louder [PDF]

, 2009
Avian brood parasites have evolved striking begging ability that often allows them to prevail over the host progeny in competition for parental resources.
Giuseppe Boncoraglio, Saino, Nicola, László Z. Garamszegi, Boncoraglio, Giuseppe, Saino, N., N. Saino, L. Z. Garamszegi, Boncoraglio, G., Nicola Saino, G. Boncoraglio, Garamszegi, László Zsolt, Garamszegi, L\ue1zsl\uf3 Z.   +11 more
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Fundamentals of Brood Parasitism

Brood parasitism is a reproductive strategy in which parasitic females secure parental care for their offspring by laying eggs in the nests of other individuals and relying on these unrelated foster parents to rear the parasitic young.
Soler Cruz, Manuel
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Ecology Of Avian Brood Parasitism At An Early Interfacing Of Host And Parasite Populations

, 1982
The shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis), a brood parasite, has recently spread into the Greater Antilles from South America via the Lesser Antilles.
Wiley, James
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Effect of parasite egg size and quantity contrast of parasite-host eggs on recognition and rejection mode of Green-backed Tits

Avian Research
In the co-evolutionary system of avian brood parasitism, egg recognition and rejection are common and generally act as effective anti-parasitic adaptations by hosts.
Xu Zhao, Ping Ye, Huaxiao Zhou, Canchao Yang   +3 more
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Avian brood parasitism and ectoparasite richness - scale-dependent diversity interactions in a three-level host-parasite system

, 2012
Brood parasitic birds, their foster species and their ectoparasites form a complex coevolving system composed of three hierarchical levels. However, effects of hosts’ brood parasitic life-style on the evolution of their louse (Phthiraptera: Amblycera ...
Vas, Zoltán, Fehérvári, Péter, Reiczigel, Jenő, Rózsa, Lajos, Fuisz, Tibor István   +4 more
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