Host sexual selection and cuckoo parasitism: An analysis of nest size in sympatric and allopatric magpie Pica pica populations parasitized by the great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1430, 1999, Pages 1765-1771

  Soler, Juan José ^a   Martínez, Juan Gabriel ^a   Soler, Manuel ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Brood parasitism; Comparative analysis; Cost of sexual selection; Nest building behaviour

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NEST; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIZE EFFECT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; EVOLUTION; MALE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EUROPE;

CLAMATOR GLANDARIUS; PICA PICA;

EID: 0033533507     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0844     Document Type: Article

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