Choosing suitable hosts: Common cuckoos Cuculus canorus parasitize great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus of high quality

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 879-891

  Polačiková, Lenka ^a,b   Procházka, Petr ^a   Cherry, Michael I ^c   Honza, Marcel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Cuckoo; Host quality; Host selection; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY CONDITION; BROOD PARASITISM; CLUTCH SIZE; COLOR MORPH; EGGSHELL; HOST QUALITY; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SONGBIRD; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 70450149872     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-008-9278-9     Document Type: Article

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