Egg colour mimicry in the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus as revealed by modelling host retinal function

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1649, 2008, Pages 2345-2352

  Avilés, Jesús M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Avian brood parasitism; Cuckoo; Discriminatory model; Egg colour matching; Host perception

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; COEXISTENCE; EGG PRODUCTION; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MIMICRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCKOO; CUCULUS CANORUS; EGG; FEMALE; FOWL; HOST; LUMINANCE; MOTACILLA ALBA; NEST PREDATION; NONHUMAN; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECIES; SPECTROSCOPY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS; MOTACILLA; MOTACILLA ALBA; PHOENICURUS; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; SYLVIA;

EID: 51449107177     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0720     Document Type: Article

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