Diet specialization and brood parasitism in cuckoo species [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Brood parasitism is a breeding strategy adopted by many species of cuckoos across the world. This breeding strategy influences the evolution of life histories of brood parasite species.
Federico Morelli +2 more
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Rare insights into intraspecific brood parasitism and apparent quasi–parasitism in black–capped chickadees [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2011 Genetic analysis of passerine birds often finds evidence of extra–pair copulations within species, but genetic evidence of intraspecific brood parasitism (IBP) and quasi–parasitism (Q–P) are relatively rare. Further, it is even rarer for genetic patterns
K. A. Otter +3 more
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Red‐winged blackbirds nesting nearer to yellow warbler and conspecific nests experience less brood parasitism [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 In functionally referential communication systems, the signaler's message intended for a conspecific receiver may be intercepted and used by a heterospecific eavesdropper for its own benefit. For example, yellow warblers (Setophaga petechia) produce seet
Shelby L. Lawson +3 more
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Model eggs fail to detect egg recognition in host populations after brood parasitism is relaxed [PDF]
Frontiers in Zoology, 2020 Background Obligate brood parasites exert strong selective pressure on target hosts. In response, hosts typically evolve anti-parasitism strategies, of which egg recognition is one of the most efficient.
Canchao Yang +5 more
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Importance of cooperation: How host nest defenses effectively prevent brood parasitism from the cuckoos [PDF]
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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Individual experience as a key to success for the cuckoo catfish brood parasitism [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 The importance of learning for brood parasites is explored using cuckoo catfish. The catfish increase their parasitism success as they gain experience, mainly by improving their social coordination and timing of intrusions to cichlid host spawnings.
Holger Zimmermann +3 more
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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
Katja Rönkä +4 more
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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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Corallorhiza striata is the first example of a pseudocopulatory orchid in North America and an instance of "double deception" in fully mycoheterotrophic plants. [PDF]
Am J BotAbstract Premise Orchids have many pollination strategies, from highly species‐specific mutualisms with insects to deceit pollination, including sexual deception. The family also has the most leafless, parasitic species (mycoheterotrophs) of any plant family.
Freudenstein JV, Barrett CF.
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Conventional oil and natural gas infrastructure increases brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) relative abundance and parasitism in mixed-grass prairie [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The rapid expansion of oil and natural gas development across the Northern Great Plains has contributed to habitat fragmentation, which may facilitate brood parasitism of ground-nesting grassland songbird nests by brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater ...
Jacy Bernath-Plaisted +2 more
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