How is host egg mimicry maintained in the cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-68

  Avilés, Jesús M ^a,b   Møller, Anders P ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Evolution of mimicry; Host specificity; Reflectance spectrometry

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; EGG; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MIMICRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

CUCULUS CANORUS; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS; FRINGILLA MONTIFRINGILLA; MONTIFRINGILLA;

EID: 2442701866     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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