Reduced parasitism by retaliatory cuckoos selects for hosts that rear cuckoo nestlings

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 566-572

  Pagel, Mark ^a,b   Møller, Anders Pape ^c   Pomiankowski, Andrew ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin   (Germany)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Cuckoos; Evolution; Models; Parasitism; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

AVES; CUCULIDAE; MOLOTHRUS;

EID: 0031729949     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.6.566     Document Type: Article

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