Colour characteristics of the blunt egg pole: cues for recognition of parasitic eggs as revealed by reflectance spectrophotometry

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 419-427

  Polačiková, Lenka ^a,b   Honza, Marcel ^a   Procházka, Petr ^a   Topercer, Ján ^c   Stokke, Bård G ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

blackcap; brood parasitism; recognition cues; reflectance spectrophotometry; rejection behaviour; Sylvia atricapilla

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; COLOR MORPH; EGG REJECTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIMICRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; REFLECTANCE; SONGBIRD; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 34548644364     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.023     Document Type: Article

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