Visual modeling shows that avian host parents use multiple visual cues in rejecting parasitic eggs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 8672-8676

  Spottiswoode, Claire N ^a,b   Stevens, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Egg color; Egg pattern; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOMALOSPIZA IMBERBIS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FEMALE; FINCH; FOWL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PRINIA SUBFLAVA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CUES; FINCHES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; PARASITES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PIGMENTATION;

ANOMALOSPIZA IMBERBIS; AVES;

EID: 77952686352     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910486107     Document Type: Article

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