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Anthropogenic Habitat Loss and Fragmentation May Alter Coevolutionary Progress as Examined in a Brood Parasitism Model [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Habitat loss and fragmentation (HLF) resulting from anthropogenic disturbances is one of the greatest threats to numerous threatened taxa facing extinction risks. HLF may devastate biodiversity through various pathways such as restricting animal movement
Wei Wang, Timothy Van Deelen, Fuwen Wei, Sheng Li, Luping Wang   +4 more
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Host personality and seasonal parasitism risk do not account for egg rejection behavior in the azure-winged magpie [PDF]

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Brood parasitism reduces the reproductive success of hosts and many host birds have evolved a range of anti-parasitism strategies, including egg recognition and egg rejection.
Xingyi Jiang, Wei Liang, Yanyun Zhang
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Importance of cooperation: How host nest defenses effectively prevent brood parasitism from the cuckoos

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, Huahua Zhao, Haixia Luo, Gangbin He, Hanlin Yan, Wei Liang   +5 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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First documented case of Tawny Pipit Anthus campestris nest parasitism by common cuckoo Cuculus canorus in Spanish steppes

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, Julia Gómez-Catasús, Daniel Bustillo-de la Rosa, Juan Traba, Julia Zurdo, Margarita Reverter   +5 more
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Potential cuckoo hosts have similar egg rejection rates to parasitized host species

Avian Research, 2020
Background Thrush species are rarely parasitized by cuckoos, but many have a strong egg recognition ability. To date, there is a limited understanding of the relationship between host egg rejection and cuckoo parasitism rate.
Tingting Yi, Yue-Hua Sun, Wei Liang
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Multiparasitism and repeated parasitism by the great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius on its main host, the magpie Pica pica: effects on reproductive success, nest desertion and nest predation

Journal of Avian Biology, 2023
Brood parasites are expected to lay only one egg per parasitized nest, as the existence of several parasitic nestlings in a brood increases competition and can lead the starvation of some of them.
Manuel Soler, Tomás Pérez‐Contreras, Francisco Ruiz‐Raya   +2 more
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A review of the cues used for rejecting foreign eggs from the nest by the Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula)

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Avian brood parasitism is reproductively costly for hosts and selects for cognitive features enabling anti‐parasitic resistance at multiple stages of the host's breeding cycle.
Andrew G. Fulmer, Mark E. Hauber
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Individual experience as a key to success for the cuckoo catfish brood parasitism

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, Radim Blažek, Matej Polačik, Martin Reichard   +3 more
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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, Wei Liang, Yan Cai, Suhua Shi, Fugo Takasu, Anders P Møller, Anton Antonov, Frode Fossøy, Arne Moksnes, Eivin Røskaft, Bård G Stokke   +10 more
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