Egg eviction imposes a recoverable cost of virulence in chicks of a brood parasite

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Anderson, Michael G ^a   Moskát, Csaba ^b   Bán, Miklós ^c   Grim, Tomáš ^d   Cassey, Phillip ^e   Hauber, Mark E ^f  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITE; CHICK; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EGG; HATCHLING; NESTING; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PREDATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EGGS; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 70450169920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007725     Document Type: Article

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