Defence behaviour against brood parasitism is deeply rooted in mainland and island scrub-jays

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-63

  Peer, Brian D ^a,b   Rothstein, Stephen I ^a   Delaney, Kathleen S ^c   Fleischer, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphelocoma californica; Aphelocoma coerulescens; Aphelocoma insularis; brood parasitism; egg ejection; Florida scrub jay; host defence; island scrub jay; molecular clock; western scrub jay

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EGG REJECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA INSULARIS; AVES; MOLOTHRUS; QUISCALUS QUISCULA;

EID: 33845804290     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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