Experimentally constrained virulence is costly for common cuckoo chicks

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-22

  Grim, Tomáš ^a   Rutila, Jarkko ^b   Cassey, Phillip ^c   Hauber, Mark E ^d,e  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLEDGING; NESTLING; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; PARASITE; PASSERINE; SURVIVAL; VIRULENCE;

AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; SETOPHAGA;

EID: 58149087920     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01574.x     Document Type: Article

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