Hosts' responses to parasitic eggs: Which cues elicit hosts' egg discrimination?

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 186-194

  Moskát, Csaba ^a,b   Székely, Tamás ^c   Cuthill, Innes C ^d   Kisbenedek, Tibor ^b,e  

^a Institute and Museum of Military History Budapest   (Hungary)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e Janus Pannonius Museum   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST; PARASITE; PASSERINE; PIGMENT; RECOGNITION;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 38149072257     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01456.x     Document Type: Article

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