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The costs of avian brood parasitism explain variation in egg rejection behaviour in hosts [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2015 Iliana Medina, Naomi E. Langmore
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Probing the Limits of Egg Recognition Using Egg Rejection Experiments Along Phenotypic Gradients. [PDF]
J Vis Exp, 2018 Brood parasites lay their eggs in other females' nests, leaving the host parents to hatch and rear their young. Studying how brood parasites manipulate hosts into raising their young and how hosts detect parasitism provide important insights in the field of coevolutionary biology.
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Avian Research, 2023 Most studies exploring abilities of hosts to detect brood parasitism are based on detecting colour and/or pattern differences among parasitic and host eggs or nestlings, while only few were focused on size differences. True recognition and recognition by
Jinmei Liu +3 more
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Reject the odd egg: egg recognition mechanisms in parrotbills [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology, 2014 Studies of the behavior of animals when confronted with tasks differing in complexity can improve our understanding of animal cognition and learning mechanisms. Coevolutionary interactions between brood parasites and their hosts provide an ideal opportunity for studying animal cognition because egg recognition and rejection are some of the most ...
Canchao Yang +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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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The existence of a coevolutionary process between avian brood parasites and their hosts predicts a lower intra-clutch variation in egg appearance of host eggs among rejecters as this would favor egg discrimination of parasite eggs by hosts once parasitic
Mercedes Molina-Morales +6 more
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Egg Rejection by Cowbird Hosts in Grasslands [PDF]
The Auk, 2000 AbstractWe tested Field Sparrows (Spizella pusilla), Vesper Sparrows (Pooecetes gramineus), Lark Sparrows (Chondestes grammacus), Grasshopper Sparrows (Ammodramus savannarum), Dickcissels (Spiza americana), Eastern Meadowlarks (Sturnella magna), and Western Meadowlarks (S. neglecta) to determine whether the low level (<10%) of observed parasitism by
Peer, Brian D. +2 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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Egg arrangement in avian clutches covaries with the rejection of foreign eggs
Animal Cognition, 2013 In birds, the colour, maculation, shape, and size of their eggs play critical roles in discrimination of foreign eggs in the clutch. So far, however, no study has examined the role of egg arrangement within a clutch on host rejection responses. We predicted that individual females which maintain consistent egg arrangements within their clutch would be ...
Polacikova, L. +7 more
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Social transmission of egg rejection in a cuckoo host [PDF]
Animal Behaviour, 2020 Abstract Social learning can enable the rapid dissemination of behaviors throughout a population. Rejection of foreign eggs is a key defense in hosts of avian brood parasites; however, whether social cues can inform whether a host rejects an egg remains unknown.
Canchao Yang, William E Feeney
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