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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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Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2022 Interspecific brood or nest parasitism is a relatively common breeding behavior in birds. Through this reproductive tactic, brood-parasites avoid the costs associated with raising and maintaining chicks by laying their eggs in the nests of the host ...
Adrián Barrero +5 more
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Declining Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) populations are associated with landscape-specific reductions in brood parasitism and increases in songbird productivity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Many songbird species have experienced significant population declines, partly because of brood parasitism by the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater), which is positively associated with increasing landscape forest cover in the midwestern United States.
W Andrew Cox +3 more
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Avocetta, 2021 We discuss the possible mechanisms explaining the potential brood parasitism between Little Bittern and Common Moorhen by reporting the first case worldwide of a Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus laying on a nest of Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus ...
Awatif Talbi +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Referential alarm calls that denote specific types of dangers are common across diverse vertebrate lineages. Different alarm calls can indicate a variety of threats, which often require specific actions to evade. Thus, to benefit from the call, listeners
Shelby L. Lawson +3 more
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Extreme offspring ornamentation in American coots is favored by selection within families, not benefits to conspecific brood parasites [PDF]
, 2019 Offspring ornamentation typically occurs in taxa with parental care, suggesting that selection arising from social interactions between parents and offspring may underlie signal evolution.
Lyon, Bruce E., Shizuka, Daizaburo
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Effect of Varroa destructor, Wounding and Varroa Homogenate on Gene Expression in Brood and Adult Honey Bees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Honey bee (Apis mellifera) gene expression related to immunity for hymenoptaecin (AmHym) and defensin-1 (AmDef-1), longevity for vitellogenin (AmVit2) and stem cell proliferation for poly U binding factor 68 kDa (AmPuf68) was compared following Varroa ...
Gun Koleoglu +4 more
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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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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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Colour, vision and coevolution in avian brood parasitism. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2017 Stoddard MC, Hauber ME.
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