Egg puncture allows shiny cowbirds to assess host egg development and suitability for parasitism

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1431, 1999, Pages 1871-1874

  Massoni, Viviana ^a   Reboreda, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Egg punctures; Egg synchronization; Shiny cowbirds; Yellow winged blackbirds

Indexed keywords

EGG DEVELOPMENT; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; FEMALE; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGELAIUS THILIUS; MOLOTHRUS BONARIENSIS;

EID: 0033595498     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0859     Document Type: Article

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