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Beyond genes-for-behaviour: The potential for genomics to resolve long-standing questions in avian brood parasitism [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionBehavioural ecology by definition of its founding ‘Tinbergian framework’ is an integrative field, however, it lags behind in incorporating genomic methods. ‘Finding the gene/s for a behaviour’ is still rarely feasible or cost‐effective in the wild but as
Rose Thorogood, Katja Rönkä
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Nest‐Site Selection in Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica): Patterns Consistent With the Human Proximity Hypothesis Across Three Regions of China [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionNest‐site selection is critical to avian reproductive success. Although human activity is known to influence nest‐site choice in birds, whether humans facilitate or impede avian reproduction remains a matter of debate.
Cong Peng +3 more
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An Experimental Test of Defenses Against Avian Brood Parasitism in a Recent Host [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Theoretical studies predict that hosts of avian brood parasites should evolve defenses against parasitism in a matter of decades. However, opportunities to test these predictions are limited because brood parasites rarely switch to naïve hosts.
Virginia Abernathy, Naomi E. Langmore
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Colour, vision and coevolution in avian brood parasitism [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017 The coevolutionary interactions between avian brood parasites and their hosts provide a powerful system for investigating the diversity of animal coloration. Specifically, reciprocal selection pressure applied by hosts and brood parasites can give rise to novel forms and functions of animal coloration, which largely differ from those that arise when ...
Mary Caswell Stoddard, Mark Hauber
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Host defences against avian brood parasitism: an endocrine perspective [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Host defences against avian brood parasites are the outcome of well-documented coevolutionary arms races, yet important questions about variation in hosts' antiparasitic response traits remain poorly understood. Why are certain defences employed by some species or individuals and not by others? Here, we propose that understanding variability in and the
Mark Hauber, Mikus Abolins-Abols
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The ecological and developmental foundations of brood parasitism in a catfish [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsInterspecific brood parasitism has evolved repeatedly from parental care. However, many non-avian brood-parasitic lineages have ancestors lacking parental care, leaving the foundations of brood parasitism in these lineages enigmatic.
Martin Reichard +12 more
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Prolactin mediates behavioural rejection responses to avian brood parasitism [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2021 International audienceAdaptations resulting from co-evolutionary interactions between avian brood parasites and their hosts have been extensively studied, yet the physiological mechanisms underlying antiparasitic host defences remain little known ...
Ibáñez-Álamo, Juan Diego +4 more
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Persistence of host defence behaviour in the absence of avian brood parasitism [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2011 The fate of host defensive behaviour in the absence of selection from brood parasitism is critical to long-term host–parasite coevolution. We investigated whether New World Bohemian waxwingsBombycilla garrulusthat are allopatric from brown-headed cowbirdMolothrus aterand common cuckooCuculus canorusparasitism have retained egg rejection behaviour.
Brian D Peer, Stephen I Rothstein
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Bird Interspecific Brood Parasitism Record in the Third Century
BirdsThe phenomenon of interspecies brood parasitism, characterized by parasitic birds depositing their eggs within the nests of unrelated host species for subsequent hatching and rearing, represents a pivotal aspect of ornithological research, owing to its ...
Dongyang Li, Yimei Zhang, Canwei Xia
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Convergent evolution of reduced eggshell conductance in avian brood parasites. [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019 Brood parasitism has evolved independently in several bird lineages, giving rise to strikingly similar behavioural adaptations that suggest convergent evolution.
Mcclelland, Stephanie +5 more
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