Fixed rejection responses to single and multiple experimental parasitism in two fringilla hosts of the common cuckoo

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 840-850

  Vikan, Johan R ^a   Stokke, Bård G ^a   Fossøy, Frode ^a   Jackson, Craig ^a   Huhta, Esa ^b   Rutila, Jarkko ^c   Moksnes, Arne ^a   Røskaft, Eivin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; EGG PARASITOID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PARASITISM; RECOGNITION;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; CUCULUS CANORUS; FRINGILLA;

EID: 68949125419     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01679.x     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Alvarez, F. 1996 : Model cuckoo Cuculus canorus eggs accepted by rufous bush chats Cercotrichas galactotes during the parasite's absence from the breeding area. Ibis 138, 340 342.
2. Avilés, J. M. 2008 : Egg colour mimicry in the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus as revealed by modelling host retinal function. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, Biol. Sci. 275, 2345 2352.
3. Bartol, I., Karcza, Z., Moskát, C., Røskaft, E. Kisbenedek, T. 2002 : Responses of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus to experimental brood parasitism: the effects of a cuckoo Cuculus canorus dummy and egg mimicry. J. Avian Biol. 33, 420 425.
4. Bates, D., Maechler, M. Dai, B. 2008 : lme4:Linear mixed-effects models using S4 classes. R package version 0.999375-28. http://lme4.r-forge.r-project. org/.
5. Braa, A. T., Moksnes, A. Røskaft, E. 1992 : Adaptations of bramblings and chaffinches towards arasitism by the common cuckoo. Anim. Behav. 43, 67 78.
6. Brooke, M. D. L., Davies, N. B. Noble, D. G. 1998 : Rapid decline of host defences in response to reduced cuckoo parasitism: behavioural flexibility of reed warblers in a changing world. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, Biol. Sci. 265, 1277 1282.
7. Cassey, P., Honza, M., Grim, T. Hauber, M. E. 2008 : The modelling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to foreign egg colours. Biol. Lett. 4, 515 517.
8. Crawley, M. J. 2007 : The R book. Wiley, West Sussex.
9. Davies, N. B. 2000 : Cuckoos, cowbirds and other cheats. T & A D Poyser, London.
10. Davies, N. B. Brooke, M. D. L. 1988 : Cuckoos versus reed warblers: adaptations and counteradaptations. Anim. Behav. 36, 262 284.
11. Davies, N. B. Brooke, M. D. L. 1989 : An experimental-study of co-evolution between the cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, and its hosts.1. Host egg discrimination. J. Anim. Ecol. 58, 207 224.
12. Davies, N. B., Brooke, M. D. L. Kacelnik, A. 1996 : Recognition errors and probability of parasitism determine whether reed warblers should accept or reject mimetic cuckoo eggs. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, Biol. Sci. 263, 925 931.
13. Endler, J. A. 1993 : The color of light in forests and its implications. Ecol. Monogr. 63, 1 27.
14. Endler, J. A. Mielke, P. W. 2005 : Comparing entire colour patterns as birds see them. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 86, 405 431.
15. Goldsmith, T. H. 1990 : Optimization, constraint, and history in the evolution of eyes. Q. Rev. Biol. 65, 281 322.
16. Gomez, D. Thery, M. 2007 : Simultaneous crypsis and conspicuousness in color patterns: comparative analysis of a neotropical rainforest bird community. Am. Nat. 169, S42 S61.
17. Hart, N. S., Partridge, J. C., Cuthill, I. C. Bennett, A. T. D. 2000 : Visual pigments, oil droplets, ocular media and cone photoreceptor distribution in two species of passerine bird: the blue tit (Parus caeruleus L.) and the blackbird (Turdus merula L.). J. Comp. Physiol. 186, 375 387.
18. Hauber, M. E., Yeh, P. J. Roberts, J. O. L. 2004 : Patterns and coevolutionary consequences of repeated brood parasitism. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, Biol. Sci. 271, S317 S320.
19. Hauber, M. E., Moskát, C. Bàn, M. 2006 : Experimental shift in hosts' acceptance threshold of inaccurate-mimic brood parasitic eggs. Biol. Lett. 2, 177 180.
20. Hoover, J. P., Yasukawa, K. Hauber, M. E. 2006 : Spatially and temporally structured avian brood parasitism affects the fitness benefits of hosts' rejection strategies. Anim. Behav. 72, 881 890.
21. Lessells, C. M. Boag, P. T. 1987 : Unrepeatable repeatabilities: a common mistake. Auk 104, 116 121.
22. Liebert, A. E. Starks, P. T. 2004 : The action component of recognition systems. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 41, 747 764.
23. Lindholm, A. K. 1999 : Brood parasitism by the cuckoo on patchy reed warbler populations in Britain. J. Anim. Ecol. 68, 293 309.
24. Lindholm, A. K. 2000 : Tests of phenotypic plasticity in reed warbler defences against cuckoo parasitism. Behaviour 137, 43 60.
25. Lotem, A. Nakamura, H. 1998 : Evolutionary equilibria in avian brood parasitism. In : Parasitic Birds and Their Hosts; Studies in Coevolution (Rothstein, S. I. Robinson, S. K., eds). Oxford Univ. Press, New York, pp. 223 235.
26. Lotem, A., Nakamura, H. Zahavi, A. 1992 : Rejection of cuckoo eggs in relation to host age - a possible evolutionary equilibrium. Behav. Ecol. 3, 128 132.
27. Lotem, A., Nakamura, H. Zahavi, A. 1995 : Constraints on egg discrimination and cuckoo host coevolution. Anim. Behav. 49, 1185 1209.
28. Mateo, J. M. 1996 : Early auditory experience and the ontogeny of alarm-call discrimination in belding's ground squirrels (Spermophilus beldingi). J. Comp. Psychol. 110, 115 124.
29. Mateo, J. M. 2004 : Recognition systems and biological organisation: the perception component of social recognition. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 41, 729 745.
30. Moksnes, A. 1992 : Egg recognition in chaffinches and bramblings. Anim. Behav. 44, 993 995.
31. Moksnes, A., Røskaft, E., Braa, A. T., Korsnes, L., Lampe, H. M. Pedersen, H. C. 1990 : Behavioural responses of potential hosts towards artificial cuckoo eggs and dummies. Behaviour 116, 64 89.
32. Moksnes, A., Røskaft, E. Korsnes, L. 1993 : Rejection of cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) eggs by meadow pipits (Anthus pratensis). Behav. Ecol. 4, 120 127.
33. Moksnes, A., Røskaft, E., Hagen, L. G., Honza, M., Mørk, C. Olsen, P. H. 2000 : Common cuckoo Cuculus canorus and host behaviour at reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus nests. Ibis 142, 247 258.
34. Moskát, C. Hauber, M. E. 2007 : Conflict between egg recognition and egg rejection decisions in common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) hosts. Anim. Cogn. 10, 377 386.
35. Moskát, C. Honza, M. 2002 : European cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism and host's rejection behaviour in a heavily parasitized great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus population. Ibis 144, 614 622.
36. Moskát, C., Hansson, B., Barabás, L., Bártol, I. Karcza, Z. 2008 : Common cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism, antiparasite defence and gene flow in closely located populations of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus. J. Avian Biol. 39, 663 671.
37. Moskát, C., Hauber, M. E., Avilés, J. M., Bán, M., Hargitai, R. Honza, M. 2009 : Increased host tolerance of multiple cuckoo eggs leads to higher fledging success of the brood parasite. Anim. Behav. 77, 1281 1290.
38. Øien, I. J., Moksnes, A. Røskaft, E. 1995 : Evolution of variation in egg color and marking pattern in european passerines: adaptations in a coevolutionary arms-race with the cuckoo, Cuculus canorus. Behav. Ecol. 6, 166 174.
39. Øien, I. J., Moksnes, A., Røskaft, E., Edvardsen, E., Honza, M., Kleven, O. Rudolfsen, G. 1999 : Conditional host responses to cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism. Proc. Int. Ornithol. Congr. 22, 3125 3145.
40. Osorio, D. Vorobyev, M. 2005 : Photoreceptor spectral sensitivities in terrestrial animals: adaptations for luminance and colour vision. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, Biol. Sci. 272, 1745 1752.
41. R Development Core Team. 2008 : R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, Available at http://www.R-project.org.
42. Reeve, H. K. 1989 : The evolution of conspecific acceptance thresholds. Am. Nat. 133, 407 435.
43. Rodriguez-Girones, M. A. Lotem, A. 1999 : How to detect a cuckoo egg: a signal-detection theory model for recognition and learning. Am. Nat. 153, 633 648.
44. Røskaft, E., Moksnes, A., Meilvang, D., Bicik, V., Jemelikova, J. Honza, M. 2002 : No evidence for recognition errors in Acrocephalus warblers. J. Avian Biol. 33, 31 38.
45. Rothstein, S. I. 1974 : Mechanisms of avian egg recognition: possible learned and innate factors. Auk 91, 796 807.
46. Rothstein, S. I. 1975 : Mechanisms of avian egg-recognition: do birds know their own eggs? Anim. Behav. 23, 268 278.
47. Rothstein, S. I. Robinson, S. K. 1998 : The evolution and ecology of avian brood parasitism; an overview. In : Parasitic Birds and Their Hosts; Studies in Coevolution (Rothstein, S. I. Robinson, S. K., eds). Oxford Univ. Press, New York, pp. 3 56.
48. Servedio, M. R. Lande, R. 2003 : Coevolution of an avian host and its parasitic cuckoo. Evolution 57, 1164 1175.
49. Sherman, P. W., Reeve, H. K. Pfennig, D. W. 1997 : Recognition systems. In : Behavioural Ecology, 4th edn (Krebs, J. R. Davis, N. B., eds). Blackwell, Oxford. pp, 69 96.
50. Stoddard, M. C. Prum, R. O. 2008 : Evolution of avian plumage color in a tetrahedral color space: a phylogenetic analysis of new world buntings. Am. Nat. 171, 755 776.
51. Stokke, B. G., Honza, M., Moksnes, A., Røskaft, E. Rudolfsen, G. 2002a : Costs associated with recognition and rejection of parasitic eggs in two European passerines. Behaviour 139, 629 644.
52. Stokke, B. G., Moksnes, A. Røskaft, E. 2002b : Obligate brood parasites as selective agents for evolution of egg appearance in passerine birds. Evolution 56, 199 205.
53. Stokke, B. G., Rudolfsen, G., Moksnes, A. Røskaft, E. 2004 : Rejection of conspecific eggs in chaffinches: The effect of age and clutch characteristics. Ethology 110, 459 470.
54. Stokke, B. G., Moksnes, A. Røskaft, E. 2005 : The enigma of imperfect adaptations in hosts of avian brood parasites. Ornithol. Sci. 4, 17 29.
55. Stokke, B. G., Hafstad, I., Rudolfsen, G., Bargain, B., Beier, J., Campàs, D. B., Dyrcz, A., Honza, M., Leisler, B., Pap, P. L., Patapavicius, R., Procházka, P., Schulze-Hagen, K., Thomas, R., Moksnes, A., Møller, A. P., Røskaft, E. Soler, M. 2007a : Host density predicts presence of cuckoo parasitism in reed warblers. Oikos 116, 913 922.
56. Stokke, B. G., Takasu, F., Moksnes, A. Røskaft, E. 2007b : The importance of clutch characteristics and learning for antiparasite adaptations in hosts of avian brood parasites. Evolution 61, 2212 2228.
57. Vorobyev, M. 2003 : Coloured oil droplets enhance colour discrimination. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, Biol. Sci. 270, 1255 1261.
58. Vorobyev, M. Osorio, D. 1998 : Receptor noise as a determinant of colour thresholds. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, Biol. Sci. 265, 351 358.
59. Vorobyev, M., Osorio, D., Bennett, A. T. D., Marshall, N. J. Cuthill, I. C. 1998 : Tetrachromacy, oil droplets and bird plumage colours. J. Comp. Physiol. A 183, 621 633.