Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Egg parasitoids foraging for suitable hosts scattered in the environment rely mainly on chemical cues. Elucidating the chemical ecology of natural enemies is important in the development of effective and successful strategies for conservation biological ...
Mokhtar Abdulsattar Arif +6 more
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Assessment of egg and milk allergies among Indians by revalidating a food allergy predictive model
World Allergy Organization Journal, 2022 Background: The recent upsurge in food allergy indicates the need for accurate medical diagnostics. The application of predictive diagnostic models can envisage the outcome of oral food challenge (OFC), reducing cost and time. A logistic regression model
Arghya Laha, M.Sc. +5 more
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Could a Factor That Does Not Affect Egg Recognition Influence the Decision of Rejection? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Rejection of the parasitic egg is the most important defence of hosts against brood parasites. However, this response is variable among and within species, and egg discrimination is not always followed by egg rejection.
Francisco Ruiz-Raya +3 more
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From food to offspring down: tissue-specific discrimination and turn-over of stable isotopes in herbivorous waterbirds and other avian foraging guilds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Isotopic discrimination and turn-over are fundamental to the application of stable isotope ecology in animals. However, detailed information for specific tissues and species are widely lacking, notably for herbivorous species.
Steffen Hahn +3 more
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Comparison of Sensory Qualities in Eggs from Three Breeds Based on Electronic Sensory Evaluations
Foods, 2021 The present study was conducted on three commercial laying breeder strains to evaluate differences of sensory qualities, including texture, smell, and taste parameters.
Xiaoguang Dong +6 more
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Host chemical footprints induce host sex discrimination ability in egg parasitoids. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Trissolcus egg parasitoids, when perceiving the chemical footprints left on a substrate by pentatomid host bugs, adopt a motivated searching behaviour characterized by longer searching time on patches were signals are present.
Ezio Peri +4 more
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The Perceptual and Cognitive Processes That Govern Egg Rejection in Hosts of Avian Brood Parasites
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Hosts of avian brood parasites are under intense selective pressure to prevent or reduce the cost of parasitism. Many have evolved refined egg discrimination abilities, which can select for eggshell mimicry in their parasite.
Daniel Hanley +3 more
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Does nest sanitation elicit egg rejection in an open-cup nesting cuckoo host rejecter?
Avian Research, 2018 Background Nest sanitation behavior is one of the most important means to ensure high reproductive efficiency. In avian brood parasitism, nest sanitation behavior may be a pre-adaptation of host birds that allows them to identify the parasitic eggs, so ...
Tongping Su +3 more
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Comparison of spectral and image morphological analysis for egg early hatching property detection based on hyperspectral imaging. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The use of non-destructive methods to detect egg hatching properties could increase efficiency in commercial hatcheries by saving space, reducing costs, and ensuring hatching quality.
Wei Zhang +4 more
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No evidence of host-specific egg mimicry in Asian koels.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Avian brood parasitism is costly for the host, in many cases leading to the evolution of defenses like discrimination of parasitic eggs. The parasite, in turn, may evolve mimetic eggs as a counter-adaptation to host egg rejection.
Mominul Islam Nahid +7 more
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