Rejection of artificial cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) eggs in relation to variation in egg appearance among reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1427, 1999, Pages 1483-1488

  Stokke, Bård G ^a   Moksnes, Arne ^a   Røskaft, Eivin ^a   Rudolfsen, Geir ^a   Honza, Marcel ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Cuckoo; Intraclutch variation; Reed warbler; Rejection behaviour

Indexed keywords

ARMS RACE; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; EGG; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; RECOGNITION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS; PASSERIFORMES; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 0033595135     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0804     Document Type: Article

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