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Optimizing solar irradiance forecasting: ANN models enhanced with ADAM and Cuckoo search algorithm. [PDF]

PLoS One
Sadiq M, Jibreel Sammar M, Anwaar Saeed M, Chen L, Liang J, AlZahrani MY, Mohsin SM.   +6 more
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Comparative population genomics reveals convergent adaptation across independent origins of avian obligate brood parasitism

Sackton T, Osipova E, Balakrishnan C, Colebrook-Robjent J, Lund J, Hauber M, Warren W, Sorenson M, DaCosta J.   +8 more
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Sparrowhawk imitation or convergent alarm signal? A new hypothesis for bubbling call of cuckoos with empirical testing. [PDF]

Curr Zool
Wang H, Chen X, Wang J, Ma L, Yang C.
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Cuckoo eyes are an important identification cue for the Oriental reed warbler host. [PDF]

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl
Yan H, Wang L, Ma L, Liang W.
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The Evolution of Cuckoo Parasitism: A Comparative Analysis [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 2002
Cuckoos (family Cuculidae) show the highest diversity of breeding strategies within one bird family (parental care, facultative and obligate brood parasites). We used independent contrasts from two phylogenies to examine how this variation was related to 13 ecological and life-history variables.
N B Davies
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Cuckoos, Cowbirds and the Persistence of Brood Parasitism

Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 1999
Brood parasites provide a particularly good opportunity for the study of host-parasite evolution because they directly affect the reproductive success of their hosts. Two parasitic species, the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) and the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater), differ widely in their relationships with their hosts, yet share the attribute of
Rachael Winfree
exaly   +3 more sources

Parasitism by cuckoos

1992
Abstract The main message of Chapter 12 was that dunnocks use simple rules to guide their parental effort. Females always feed the young in their nest and, in the absence of intraspecific brood parasitism (Chapter 7), they can have complete confidence that all the young dunnocks in their nest are their own.
N B Davies, David Quinn
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Adaptations for Brood Parasitism in Cuculus Cuckoos

Journal of Reproduction and Development, 1995
Brood parasitism is a breeding habit of birds, in which eggs are laid into the nests of other birds. Cuculus cuckoos, representative of such brood parasites, visit the laying nests of hosts, and remove one egg from the nest before laying their own egg. A particular female cuckoo lays one egg in one nest.
Hiroyoshi Higuchi
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Cuckoos and parasitic ants: Interspecific brood parasitism as an evolutionary arms race

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1989
Each summer thousands of nesting birds feed cuckoo chicks that have killed the hosts' own young. Likewise, worker ants rear the brood of other ants that have killed the workers' queen or even induced the workers to kill their queen themselves. In both cases the hosts spend time and energy raising offspring that, to them, are of no genetic value.
N B, Davies, A F, Bourke, M, de L Brooke
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A Parasitic Malayan Cuckoo

1925
The Singapore Naturalist, Volume 1, Issue 5, pp ...
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