Egg recognition and counting reduce costs of avian conspecific brood parasitism

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6931, 2003, Pages 495-499

  Lyon, Bruce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COSTS; ECOLOGY;

EGG RECOGNITION;

CONSERVATION;

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG PRODUCTION; RECOGNITION; VISUAL CUE;

AMERICAN COOT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; BREEDING METHOD; BROOD PARASITISM; CLUTCH SIZE; CONSPECIFIC BROOD PARASITISM; CONSPECIFIC EGG RECOGNITION; COST OF REPRODUCTION; ECOLOGY; EGG; EGG RECOGNITION; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCUBATION TIME; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL COUNT; COGNITION; COLOR; CUES; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FULICA AMERICANA; RALLIDAE;

EID: 0037417296     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01505     Document Type: Article

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