Experimental shift in hosts' acceptance threshold of inaccurate-mimic brood parasite eggs

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-180

  Hauber, Márk E ^a   Moskát, Csaba ^b   Bán, Miklós ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Darwinian algorithms; Optimal conspecific acceptance threshold; Template

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG REJECTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MIMICRY; THRESHOLD;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 33745292544     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0438     Document Type: Article

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