The importance of clutch characteristics and learning for antiparasite adaptations in hosts of avian brood parasites

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2212-2228

  Stokke, Bård G ^a   Takasu, Fugo ^b   Moksnes, Arne ^a   Røskaft, Eivin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Egg appearance; Learning; Model; Rejection behavior

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG REJECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOLUTION; NESTING; OOCYTE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM;

AVES;

EID: 34548341764     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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