Antagonistic antiparasite defenses: Nest defense and egg rejection in the magpie host of the great spotted cuckoo

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 707-713

  Soler, Juan José ^a   Soler, Manuel ^a   Pérez Contreras, Tomás ^a   Aragón, Santiago ^b   Møller, Anders Pape ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Clamator glandarius; Coevolution; Great spotted cuckoos; Hierarchical defense strategies; Host defense strategies; Magpies; Pica pica

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG REJECTION; NEST GUARDING;

CLAMATOR GLANDARIUS; CORVIDAE; CORVUS CORONE; CUCULIDAE; PICA; PICA PICA;

EID: 0033370781     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.6.707     Document Type: Article

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