Flexible cuckoo chick-rejection rules in the superb fairy-wren

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 978-984

  Langmore, Naomi E ^a   Cockburn, Andrew ^a   Russell, Andrew F ^b   Kilner, Rebecca M ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Mimicry; Recognition systems; Rejection threshold; Signaling

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; MIMICRY; NESTLING; RECOGNITION;

CHALCITES BASALIS; CUCULIDAE; MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 70349473043     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp086     Document Type: Article

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