Socially acquired host-specific mimicry and the evolution of host races in Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo Chalcites basalis

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1689-1699

  Langmore, Naomi E ^a   Maurer, Golo ^a   Adcock, Greg J ^a   Kilner, Rebecca M ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging calls; Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Learning; Social shaping

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; LEARNING; MIMICRY; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SPECIALIZATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; NESTING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ACANTHIZA REGULOIDES; CHALCITES BASALIS; CUCULIDAE; MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 47349109292     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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