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Animals, 2022 The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is an obligate brood parasite that has evolved a series of strategies to trick its hosts. The female cuckoo has been hypothesized to mimic the appearance and sounds of several raptors to deceive the hosts into ...
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Egg rejection and clutch phenotype variation in the plain prinia Prinia inornata
Journal of Avian Biology, 2016 Avian hosts of brood parasites can evolve anti‐parasitic defenses to recognize and reject foreign eggs from their nests. Theory predicts that higher inter‐clutch and lower intra‐clutch variation in egg appearance facilitates hosts to detect parasitic ...
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Sensors, 2020 Due to reliability and performance considerations, employing multiple software-defined networking (SDN) controllers is known as a promising technique in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).
Shirin Tahmasebi +5 more
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Functional significance of cuckoo Cuculus canorus calls: responses of conspecifics, hosts and non-hosts [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Male cuckoos Cuculus canorus produce calls that differ in number of syllables depending on environmental conditions and presence of male and female conspecifics.
Piotr Tryjanowski +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Cuckoo nest parasites lay eggs in host nests and thereby transfer all reproduction costs to the hosts. This greatly reduces host fitness. Parasitism has selected for the evolution of anti-parasitic strategies in hosts, including nest defense. The dynamic
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Russet Sparrows spot alien chicks from their nests
Avian Research, 2018 Background In coevolutionary interactions between brood parasites and their hosts, host parents are under strong selection to evolve defenses against parasitism.
Juan Huo +4 more
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Common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) affect the bacterial diversity of the eggshells of their great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) hosts. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is an avian brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of other bird species, where these hosts incubate the parasitic eggs, feed and rear the nestlings.
Nikoletta Geltsch +4 more
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Nesting of Dark-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus) on Isabela Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
El Hornero, 2023 We present new data and reviewed the information available on the breeding biology of the Dark-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus), a widespread South American species.
Ibeth P. Alarcón +8 more
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Evolution of bird eggs in the absence of cuckoo parasitism [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005 Historical introductions of species into new habitats can create rare opportunities to test evolutionary hypotheses, such as the role of natural selection in maintaining traits. This study examines two independent introductions of the African village weaverbird ( Ploceus cucullatus ) to ...
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Brood parasitism selects for no defence in a cuckoo host [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 In coevolutionary arms races, like between cuckoos and their hosts, it is easy to understand why the host is under selection favouring anti-parasitism behaviour, such as egg rejection, which can lead to parasites evolving remarkable adaptations to ‘trick’ their host, such as mimetic eggs.
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