Cryptic gentes revealed in pallid cuckoos Cuculus pallidus using reflectance spectrophotometry

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1596, 2006, Pages 1929-1934

  Starling, M ^a   Heinsohn, R ^b   Cockburn, A ^a   Langmore, N E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Egg mimicry; Gentes; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; EGG; HOST SPECIFICITY; REFLECTANCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITE; BROOD PARASITISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCULUS PALLIDUS; EGG LAYING; HOST; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY;

CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS PALLIDUS;

EID: 34250681713     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3490     Document Type: Article

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