The coevolutionary arms race between Horsfields Bronze-Cuckoos and Superb Fairy-wrens

Emu

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-38

  Langmore, N E ^a   Kilner, R M ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARMS RACE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

CHALCITES BASALIS; CUCULIDAE; MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 77649303064     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU09032     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Bártol, I., Karcza, Z., Moskát, C., Røskaft, E., and 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. Journal of Avian Biology 33, 420-425. doi: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2002.02945.x (Pubitemid 36080429)
2. Britton, N. F., Planqué, N. R., and Franks, N. R. (2007). Evolution of defence portfolios in exploiter-victim systems. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 69, 957-988. doi: 10.1007/s11538-006-9178-5 (Pubitemid 46466313)
3. Brooker, L. C., and Brooker, M. G. (1990). Why are cuckoos host specific? Oikos 57, 301-309. doi: 10.2307/3565958
4. Brooker, M. G., and Brooker, L. C. (1989a). Cuckoo hosts in Australia. Australian Zoological Reviews 2, 1-67.
5. Brooker, M. G., and Brooker, L. C. (1989b). The comparative breeding behaviour of two sympatric cuckoos, Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx basalis and the Shining Bronze-Cuckoo C. lucidus, in Western Australia: a new model for the evolution of egg morphology and host specificity in avian brood parasites. Ibis 131, 528-547. doi: 10.1111/ j.1474-919X.1989.tb04789.x
6. Brooker, M. G., and Brooker, L. C. (1996). Acceptance by the Splendid Fairy-wren of parasitism by Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoos: further evidence for evolutionary equilibrium in brood parasitism. Behavioural Ecology 7, 395-407. doi: 10.1093/beheco/7.4.395
7. Brooker, M. G., Brooker, L. C., and Rowley, I. (1988). Egg deposition by the bronze-cuckoos Chrysococcyx basalis and Ch. lucidus. Emu 88, 107-109.
8. Brooker, L. C., Brooker, M. G., and Brooker, A. M. H. (1990). An alternative population/genetics model for the evolution of egg mimesis and egg crypsis in cuckoos. Journal of Theoretical Biology 146, 123-143. doi: 10.1016/S0022-5193(05)80048-7
9. Brown, M., and Lawes, M. J. (2007). Colony size and nest density predict the likelihood of parasitism in the colonial Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix - Diderick Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius system. Ibis 149, 321-327. doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00633.x (Pubitemid 46525249)
10. Canestrari, D., Marcos, J. M., and Baglione, V. (2009). Cooperative breeding in carrion crows reduces the rate of brood parasitism by great spotted cuckoos. Animal Behaviour 77, 1337-1344. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav. 2009.02.009
11. Cockburn, A., Sims, R. A., Osmond, H. L., Green, D. J., Double, M. C., and Mulder, R. A. (2008).Canwemeasure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of Superb Fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus. Journal of Animal Ecology 77, 430-438. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01351.x
12. Davies, N. B. (1999). Cuckoos and cowbirds versus hosts: co-evolutionary lag and equilibrium. Ostrich 70, 71-79.
13. Davies, N. B. (2000). 'Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats.' (T. and A. D. Poyser: London.)
14. Davies, N. B., and Brooke, M. de L. (1988). Cuckoos versus reed warblers: adaptations and counter-adaptations. Animal Behaviour 36, 262-284. doi: 10.1016/S0003-3472(88)80269-0
15. Davies, N. B., and Brooke, M. de L. (1989a). An experimental study of coevolution between the cuckoo Cuculus canorus and its hosts. I. Host egg discrimination. Journal of Animal Ecology 58, 207-224. doi: 10.2307/4995
16. Davies, N. B., and Brooke, M. de L. (1989b). An experimental study of coevolution between the cuckoo Cuculus canorus and its hosts. II. Host egg markings, chick discrimination and general discussion. Journal of Animal Ecology 58, 225-236. doi: 10.2307/4996
17. Davies, N. B., and Welbergen, J. A. (2008). Cuckoo-hawk mimicry? An experimental test. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 275, 1817-1822. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0331 (Pubitemid 351839877)
18. Davies, N. B., Brooke, M. De L., and Kacelnik, A. (1996). Recognition errors and probability of parasitism determine whether reed warblers should accept or reject mimetic cuckoo eggs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 263, 925-931. doi: 10.1098/ rspb.1996.0137
19. Dawkins, R. (1982). 'The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene.' (Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.)
20. Gibbs, H. L., Sorenson, M. D., Marchetti, K., Brooke, M. D., Davies, N. B., and Nakamura, H. (2000). Genetic evidence for female host-specific races of the common cuckoo. Nature 407, 183-186. doi: 10.1038/35025058
21. Grim, T. (2002). Why is mimicry in cuckoo eggs sometimes so poor? Journal of Avian Biology 33, 302-305. doi: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2002.330312.x
22. Grim, T. (2006). The evolution of nestling discrimination by hosts of parasitic birds: why is rejection so rare? Evolutionary Ecology Research 8, 785-802.
23. Grim, T. (2007). Experimental evidence for chick discrimination without recognition in a brood parasite host. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 274, 373-381. doi: 10.1098/ rspb.2006.3731
24. Grim, T., Kleven, O., and Mikulica, O. (2003). Nestling discrimination without recognition: a possible defence mechanism for hosts towards cuckoo parasitism? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 270, S73-S75. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0017
25. Kilner, R. M. (2006). The evolution of egg colour and patterning in birds. Biological Reviews 81, 383-406. doi: 10.1017/S1464793106007044 (Pubitemid 44109656)
26. Krüger, O., and Davies, N. B. (2004). The evolution of egg size in the brood parasitic cuckoos. Behavioural Ecology 15, 210-218. doi: 10.1093/ beheco/arg104
27. Lahti, D. C., and Lahti, A. R. (2002). How precise is egg discrimination in weaverbirds? Animal Behaviour 63, 1135-1142. doi: 10.1006/ anbe.2002.3009
28. Langmore, N. E., and Kilner, R. M. (2007). Breeding site and host selection by Horsfield's bronze-cuckoos, Chalcites basalis. Animal Behaviour 74, 995-1004. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.02.028 (Pubitemid 47538534)
29. Langmore, N. E., and Kilner, R. M. (2009). Why do Horsfield's bronzecuckoo Chalcites basalis eggs mimic those of their hosts? Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 63, 1127-1131. doi: 10.1007/s00265-009-0759-9
30. Langmore, N. E., Hunt, S., and Kilner, R. M. (2003). Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young. Nature 422, 157-160. doi: 10.1038/nature01460 (Pubitemid 36362746)
31. Langmore, N. E., Kilner, R. M., Butchart, S. H. M., Maurer, G., Davies, N. B., Cockburn, A., Macgregor, N., Peters, A., Magrath, M. J. L., and Dowling, D. (2005). The evolution of egg rejection by cuckoo hosts in Australia and Europe. Behavioural Ecology 16, 686-692. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ari041 (Pubitemid 41378992)
32. Langmore, N. E., Adcock, G., and Kilner, R. M. (2007). The spatial organization and mating system of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoos, Chalcites basalis. Animal Behaviour 74, 403-412. doi: 10.1016/ j.anbehav.2006.09.019
33. Langmore, N. E., Maurer, G., Adcock, G. J., and Kilner, R. M. (2008). Socially acquired host-specific mimicry and the evolution of host races in Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Chalcites basalis. Evolution 62, 1689-1699. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00405.x (Pubitemid 352000102)
34. Langmore, N. E., Cockburn, A., Russell, A. F., and Kilner, R. M. (2009). Flexible cuckoo chick rejection rules in the superb fairy-wren. Behavioural Ecology 20, 978-984. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arp086
35. Lotem, A. (1993). Learning to recognize nestlings is maladaptive for cuckoo Cuculus canorus hosts. Nature 362, 743-745. doi: 10.1038/362743a0
36. Lotem, A., Nakamura, H., and Zahavi, A. (1992). Rejection of cuckoo eggs in relation to host age: a possible evolutionary equilibrium. Behavioural Ecology 3, 128-132. doi: 10.1093/beheco/3.2.128
37. Lawes, M. J., and Marthews, T. R. (2003). When will rejection of parasite nestlings by hosts of nonevicting avian brood parasites be favored? A misimprinting-equilibrium model. Behavioural Ecology 14, 757-770. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arg068 (Pubitemid 38126973)
38. Marchetti, K. (1992). Costs to host defence and the persistence of parasitic cuckoos. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 248, 41-45. doi: 10.1098/rspb.1992.0040
39. McLean, I. G., and Waas, J. R. (1987). Do cuckoo chicks mimic the begging calls of their hosts. Animal Behaviour 35, 1896-1898. doi: 10.1016/ S0003-3472(87)80083-80090
40. Moksnes, A., Røskaft, E., Braa, A. T., Korsnes, L., Lampe, H. M., and Pedersen, H. C. (1991). Behavioural responses of potential hosts towards artificial cuckoo eggs and dummies. Behaviour 116, 64-89. doi: 10.1163/ 156853990X00365
41. Moksnes, A., Røskaft, E., and Korsnes, L. (1993). Rejection of cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) eggs by meadow pipits (Anthus pratensis). Behavioural Ecology 4, 120-127. doi: 10.1093/beheco/4.2.120
42. Moskát, C., Avilés, J. M., Bán, M., Hargitai, R., and Zölei, A. (2008). Experimental support for the use of egg uniformity in parasite egg discrimination by cuckoo hosts. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62, 1885-1890.
43. Øien, I. J., Moksnes, A., and 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. Behavioural Ecology 6, 166-174. doi: 10.1093/beheco/6.2.166
44. Payne, R. B. (2005). 'The Cuckoos.' (Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.)
45. Payne, R. B., and Payne, L. L. (1998). Nestling eviction and vocal begging behaviours in the Australian glossy cuckoos Chrysococcyx basalis and C. lucidus. In 'Parasitic Birds and their Hosts'. (Eds S. I. Rothstein and S. K. Robinson.) pp. 152-172. (Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.)
46. Payne, R. B., Payne, L. L., and Rowley, I. (1985). Splendid wren Malurus splendens response to cuckoos: an experimental test of social organization in a communal bird. Behaviour 94, 108-126. doi: 10.1163/ 156853985X00299
47. Rothstein, S. I. (1974). Mechanisms of avian egg recognition: possible learned and innate factors. Auk 91, 796-807.
48. Rothstein, S. I. (1990). A model system for coevolution: avian brood parasitism. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 21, 481-508. doi: 10.1146/annurev.es.21.110190.002405
49. Rothstein, S. I., and Robinson, S. K. (1998). 'Parasitic Birds and their Hosts: Studies in Coevolution.' (Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.)
50. Sato, N. J., Tokue, K., Noske, R. A., Mikami, O. K., and Ueda, K. (2009). Evicting cuckoo nestlings from the nest: a new anti-parasitism behaviour. Biology Letters, In press. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0540
51. Sims, R. A. (2002). Age-related improvements in reproductive success among female Superb Fairy-wrens, Malurus cyaneus. B.Sc.(Hons) Thesis, Australian National University, Canberra.
52. Takasu, F. (1998a). Modelling the arms race in avian brood parasitism. Evolutionary Ecology 12, 969-987. doi: 10.1023/A:1006520323251 (Pubitemid 29006853)
53. Takasu, F. (1998b). Why do all host species not show defense against avian brood parasitism: evolutionary lag or equilibrium? American Naturalist 151, 193-205. doi: 10.1086/286111 (Pubitemid 28102156)
54. Welbergen, J. A., and Davies, N. B. (2009). Variation in mobbing as a front line of defense against brood parasitism. Current Biology 19, 235-240. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.041
55. Yasukawa, K., and Cockburn, A. (2009). Antipredator vigilance in cooperatively breeding Superb Fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus). Auk 126, 147-154. doi: 10.1525/auk.2009.08074