Genetic evidence for female host-specific races of the common cuckoo

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6801, 2000, Pages 183-186

  Gibbs, H Lisle ^a   Sorenson, Michael D ^b   Marchetti, Karen ^a,c   De Brooke, M L ^d   Davies, N B ^d   Nakamura, Hiroshi ^e  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST SPECIFICITY; MATERNAL EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BIRD; DNA DETERMINATION; EGG LAYING; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 0034648802     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35025058     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Newton, A. A Dictionary of Birds. (Black, London, 1893).
2. Baker, E. C. S. Cuckoo Problems. (Witherby, London, 1942).
3. Brooke, M. de L. & Davies, N. B. Egg mimicry by cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, in relation to discrimination by hosts. Nature 335, 630-632 (1988).
4. Moksnes, A. & Røskaft, E. Egg-morphs and host preference in the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus): an analysis of cuckoo and host eggs from European museum collections. J. Zool. 236, 625-648 (1995).
5. Marchetti, K., Nakamura, H. & Gibbs, H. L. Host race formation in the Common Cuckoo. Science 282, 471-472 (1998).
6. Punnett, R. C. Inheritance of egg-colour in the parasitic cuckoos. Nature 132, 892 (1933).
7. Davies, N. B. & Brooke, M. de L. An experimental study of co-evolution between the cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, and its hosts. II. Host egg markings, chick discrimination, and general discussion. J. Anim. Ecol. 58, 225-236 (1989).
8. Davies, N. B. Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats (Poyser, London, 2000).
9. Gibbs, H. L., Brooke, M. de L., & Davies, N. B. Analysis of genetic differentiation of host races of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus using mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA variation. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 263, 89-96 (1996).
10. Nakamura, H. & Miyazawa, Y. Movements, space use and social organization of radio-tracked cuckoos during the breeding season in Japan. Jap. J. Ornithol. 46, 23-53 (1997).
11. Nakamura, H., Kubota, S. & Suzuki, R. in Parasitic Birds and Their Hosts (eds Rothstein, S. I. & Robinson, S. K.) 94-112 (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 1998).
12. Steel, M. A., Cooper, A. C. & Penny, D. Confidence intervals for the divergence time of two clades. System. Biol. 45, 127-134 (1996).
13. Avise, J. C. & Walker, D. Pleistocene phylogeographic effects on avian populations and the speciation process. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 265, 457-463 (1998).
14. Teuschl, V., Taborsky, R. & Taborsky, M. How do cuckoos find their hosts? The role of habitat imprinting. Anim. Behav. 56, 1423-1433 (1998).
15. Brooke, M. de L. & Davies, N. B. A failure to demonstrate host imprinting in the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus and alternative hypotheses for the maintenance of egg mimicry. Ethology 89, 154-166 (1991).
16. Collias, E. C. Inheritance of egg-colour polymorphism in the village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus). Auk 110, 683-693 (1993).
17. Schoffner, R. N. et al. The effect of a protoporphyrin mutant on some economic traits of the chicken. Poultry Sci. 61, 817-820 (1982).
18. Roldan, E. R. S. & Gomendio, M. The Y chromosome as a battleground for sexual selection. Trends Ecol. Evol. 14, 58-62 (1999).
19. Kilner, R. M., Noble, D. G. & Davies, N. B. Signals of need in parent-offspring communication and their exploitation by the common cuckoo. Nature 397, 667-672 (1999).
20. Dawkins, R. Unwaving the Rainbow. (Allen Lane, London, 1998).
21. Gibbs, H. L., DeSousa, L., Marchetti, K. & Nakamura, H. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite DNA loci for an obligate brood parasitic bird, the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). Mol. Ecol. 7, 1437-1434 (1998).
22. Swofford, D. PAUP, Ver. 4.0 (Sinauer Associates, 1999).
23. Schneider, S., Kueffer, J. M., Roessli, D. & Excoffier, L. Arlequin ver. 1. 1: A Software for Population Genetic Data Analysis. (Genetics and Biometry Laboratory, Univ. Geneva, Switzerland, 1997).
24. Raymond, M. & Rousset, F. An exact test for population differentiation. Evolution 49, 1280-1283 (1995).
25. Hudson, R., Slatkin, M. & Maddison, W. Estimation of levels of gene flow from DNA sequence data. Genetics 132, 583-589 (1992).
26. Slatkin, M. A measure of population subdivision based on microsatellite allele frequencies. Genetics 139, 457-462 (1995).
27. Excoffier, L., Smouse, P. E. & Quattro, J. M. Analysis of molecular variance inferred from metric distances among DNA haplotypes: application to human mitochondrial DNA. Genetics 131, 479-491 (1992).
28. Goodnight, K., Queller, D. C. & Poznansky, T. Kinship Ver. 1.2 (1997). Available on http://www.bioc.rice.edu/~kfg/GSoft.html.
29. Queller, D. C. & Goodnight, K. F. Estimating relatedness using genetic markers. Evolution 42, 258-275 (1989).
30. Maddison, W. P. & Maddison, D. R. MacClade: Analysis of Phylogeny and Character Evolution. Ver. 3.0. (Sinauer Associates, 1992).