Ultraviolet reflectance of great spotted cuckoo eggs and egg discrimination by magpies

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 310-314

  Avilés, Jesús M ^a   Soler, Juan J ^a   Pérez Contreras, Tomas ^a   Soler, Manuel ^b   Møller, Anders Pape ^c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

Avian brood parasitism; Egg discrimination; Egg mimicry; Great spotted cuckoo; Magpie; Ultraviolet vision

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG REJECTION; MIMICRY; REFLECTANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AVES; CLAMATOR GLANDARIUS; CORVIDAE; PICA PICA;

EID: 32144446760     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj031     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Alvarez F, Arias de Reyna L, Segura M, 1976. Experimental brood parasitism of the magpie (Pica pica). Anim Behav 24:907-916.
2. Avilés JM, Soler JJ, Soler M, Møller AP, 2004. Rejection of parasitic eggs in relation to egg appearance in magpies. Anim Behav 67:951-958.
3. Bowmaker JK, Heath LA, Wilkie SE, Hunt DM, 1997. Visual pigments and oil droplets from six classes of photoreceptor in the retinas of birds. Vision Res 37:2183-2194.
4. Brooker M, Brooker L, 1996. Acceptance by the splendid fairy-wren of parasitism by Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo: further evidence for evolutionary equilibrium in brood parasitism. Behav Ecol 7:395-407.
5. Chen DM, Collins JS, Goldsmith TH, 1984. The ultraviolet receptors in bird retinas. Science 225:337-339.
6. Cherry MI, Bennett ATD, 2001. Egg colour matching in an African cuckoo, as revealed by ultraviolet-visible reflectance spectrophotometry. Proc R Soc Lond B 268:565-571.
7. Cohen J, 1988. Statistical power analysis for the behavioural sciences. 2nd ed. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
8. Cuthill IC, Partridge JC, Bennett ATD, Church SC, Hart NS, Hunt S, 2000. Ultraviolet vision in birds. Adv Study Behav 29:159-214.
9. Davies NB, 2000. Cuckoos, cowbirds and other cheats. London: T and AD Poyser.
10. Davies NB, Brooke M de L, 1988. Cuckoos versus reed warblers: adaptations and counteradaptations. Anim Behav 36:262-284.
11. Dawkins R, Krebs JR, 1979. Arms races between and within species. Proc R Soc Lond B 205:489-511.
12. Hoover JP, 2003. Experiments and observations of prothonotary warblers indicate a lack of adaptive response to brood parasitism. Anim Behav 65:935-944.
13. Kelly C, 1987. A model to explore the rate of spread of mimicry and rejection in hypothetical populations of cuckoos and their hosts. J Theor Biol 125:288-299.
14. Lotem A, Nakamura H, 1998. Evolutionary equilibria in avian brood parasitism. An alternative to the 'arms race-evolutionary lag' concept. In: Parasitic birds and their hosts, studies in coevolution (Rothstein SI, Robinson SK, eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press; 223-235.
15. Lotem A, Nakamura H, Zahavi A, 1992. Rejection of cuckoo eggs in relation to host age: a possible evolutionary equilibrium. Behav Ecol 3:128-132.
16. Marchetti K, 1992. Costs to host defence and the persistence of parasitic cuckoos. Proc R Soc Lond B 248:41-45.
17. Moksnes A, Røskaft E, Braa AT, Korsnes L, Lampe HM, Pedersen HC, 1990. Behavioural responses of potential hosts towards artificial cuckoo eggs and dummies. Behaviour 116:65-89.
18. Ödeen A, Håstad O, 2003. Complex distribution of avian color vision systems revealed by sequencing the SWS1 opsin from total DNA. Mol Biol Evol 20:855-861.
19. Payne RB, 1997. Avian brood parasitism. In: Host parasite coevolution. General principles and avian models. (Clayton DH, Moore J, eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press; 338-369.
20. Rohwer S, Spaw CD, 1988. Evolutionary lag versus bill-size constraints a comparative study of the acceptance of cowbird eggs by old hosts. Evol Ecol 2:27-36.
21. Røkaft E, Orians GH, Beletsky LD, 1990. Why do red-winged blackbirds accept the eggs of brown-headed cowbirds? Evol Ecol 4:35-42.
22. Rothstein SI, 1975a. An experimental and teleonomic investigation of avian brood parasitism. Condor 77:250-271.
23. Rothstein SI, 1975b. Evolutionary rates and host defenses against avian brood parasitism. Am Nat 109:161-176.
24. Rothstein SI, 1990. A model system for coevolution: avian brood parasitism. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 21:481-508.
25. Rothstein SI, Robinson SK, 1998. Major unanswered questions in the study of avian brood parasitism. In: Parasitic birds and their hosts: studies in coevolution, vol. 9. (Rothstein SI, Robinson SK, eds). New York: Oxford University Press; 419-425.
26. SAS Institute, 1996. SAS/STAT software changes and enhancements through release 6.11. Cary, North Carolina: SAS Institute.
27. Soler JJ, Martínez JG, Soler M, Møller AP, 1999. Genetic and geographic variation in rejection behavior of cuckoo eggs by European magpie populations: an experimental test of rejecter-gene flow. Evolution 53:947-956.
28. Soler JJ, Martínez JG, Soler M, Møller AP, 2001. Life history of magpie populations sympatric or allopatric with the brood parasitic great spotted cuckoo. Ecology 82:1621-1631.
29. Soler JJ, Soler M, 2000. Brood-parasite interactions between great spotted cuckoos and magpies: a model system for studying coevolutionary relationships. Oecologia 125:309-320.
30. Soler M, 1990. Relationship between the great spotted cuckoo, Clamator glandarius, and its corvid hosts in a recently colonized area. Ornis Scand 21:212-223.
31. Soler M, Møller AP, 1990. Duration of sympatry and coevolution between great spotted cuckoo and its magpie host. Nature 343:748-750.
32. Soler M, Soler JJ, Martínez JG, 1998. Duration of sympatry and coevolution between the great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) and its primary host, the magpie (Pica pica). In: Parasitic birds and their hosts: studies in coevolution. (Rothstein SI, Robinson SK, eds). New York: Oxford University Press; 113-128.
33. Zahavi A, 1979. Parasitism and nest predation in parasitic cuckoos. Am Nat 113:157-159.