Adaptations in the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) to host eggs in a multiple-hosts system of brood parasitism

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-300

  Takasu, Fugo ^a   MoskÁt, Csaba ^b   Muñoz, A Roman ^a,e   Imanishi, Sadao ^c,f   Nakamura, Hiroshi ^d  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c YAMASHINA INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Japan)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Fundación Migres Ctra N 340   (Spain)

^f NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Mimicry; Morph; Range; Reflectance spectra

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EVOLUTION; HOME RANGE; MIMICRY; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SYMPATRY;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NAGANO;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS ORIENTALIS; CUCULUS CANORUS; CYANOPICA CYANUS; EMBERIZA SPODOCEPHALA; LANIUS BUCEPHALUS;

EID: 70349207098     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01288.x     Document Type: Article

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