Utilization of a new host in the screaming cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris, a host specialist brood parasite: Host switch or host acquisition?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1603-1608

  Mahler, Bettina ^a   Adamson, Yanina Sarquis ^a   Giacomo, Alejandro G Di ^b   Confalonieri, Viviana A ^a   Reboreda, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Aves Argentinas/Asociacion Ornitologica del Plata   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Host selection; Host specificity; Molothrus rufoaxillaris; mtDNA; Screaming cowbird

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; HOST SELECTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST USE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PASSERINE;

GNORIMOPSAR CHOPI; MOLOTHRUS RUFOAXILLARIS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 77952670536     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0755-0     Document Type: Article

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