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Brood parasitism: ducks can be cuckoos too
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2000There are several omissions in the recent TREE review article by Winfree1xCuckoos, cowbirds and the persistence of brood parasitism. Winfree, R. Trends Ecol. Evol. 1999; 14: 338–343Abstract | Full Text | Full Text PDF | PubMed | Scopus (52)See all References1.
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Inheritance of Egg-Colour in the Parasitic Cuckoos
Nature, 1933THE interesting suggestion recently made by Mr. Wynne-Edwards in these columns1 with respect to the inheritance of egg-colour in the parasitic cuckoos calls for a few remarks from the genetical point of view. Granting for the moment that the various types of egg-coloration in a polymorphic species such as Cuculus canorus are dependent upon a series of ...
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Costs to host defence and the persistence of parasitic cuckoos
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 1992Raising genetically unrelated young is maladaptive, yet brood parasitism is widespread in birds. In several systems, hosts can evolve near-perfect defences against the parasite (discrimination and rejection of unlike eggs), making it difficult to understand how the parasite continues to exist.
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The evolution of brood parasitism in cuckoos
2005Abstract Although a cuckoo nestling destroys the host eggs and nestlings, the host parents often do not dis criminate against a cuckoo egg and they incubate it with their own eggs. The hosts may lack the genetic variation that would allow evolutionary selection to favor action against cuckoos (Rothstein 1990).
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Parasites, cuckoos, and avian population dynamics
1991Abstract The last 10 years have seen significant increases in the understanding of the role that parasites and pathogens play in the regulation of host abundance. These advances are based, in part, on a theoretical framework developed to examine the population dynamics of parasite-host relationships (Anderson and May 1978,1979,1982 ...
A P Dop Son, R M May
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Brood parasitism of rosefinches by cuckoos: suitable host or accidental parasitism?
Journal of Ethology, 2018The arms race between avian brood parasites and their hosts is a classic model of co-evolution. Parasitic breeding by the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) in the nests of the Chinese beautiful rosefinch (Carpodacus davidianus) was found from May to July 2017 in Saihanba National Forest Park, Heibei, China.
Jianping Liu, Canchao Yang, Wei Liang
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Retaliatory cuckoos and the evolution of host resistance to brood parasites
Animal Behaviour, 1999We present a dynamic model of the evolution of host resistance to avian brood parasites, when the latter can retaliate against hosts that reject parasitic eggs. In a verbal model, Zahavi (1979, American Naturalist, 113, 157-159) suggested that retaliatory cuckoos might prevent the evolution of host resistance by reducing the reproductive success of ...
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Inheritance of Egg-Colour in the ‘Parasitic’ Cuckoos
Nature, 1934PROF PUNNETT1 has suggested that Prof. Wynne-Edwards' ingenious hypothesis2 for explaining how the gentes of parasitic cuckoos may be kept distinct despite their promiscuous orpolyandrous matinghabits could be replaced by the assumption that it is the Y-chromosome of the mother which carries the factor assumed to determine the gens to which the ...
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Social Transmission of a Host Defense Against Cuckoo Parasitism
Science, 2009Defeating the Cuckoo Brood parasite-host interactions show ongoing antagonistic coevolution. What mediates rapid behavioral changes that do not reflect genetic change? Davies and Welbergen (p. 1318 ) show that reed warblers learn from their neighbors to behave aggressively toward ...
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Color Morph Variation in Two Brood Parasites: Common Cuckoo and Lesser Cuckoo
Ornithological Science, 2016Abstract Variation in plumage color in the family Cuculidae has become an interesting subject for model systems in the study of avian color evolution. It is notable that in certain parasitic species, such as the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus and Lesser Cuckoo C.
Hee-Jin Noh, Jin-Won Lee, Jeong-Chil Yoo
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