Avian brood parasitism: Information use and variation in egg-rejection behavior

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1459-1469

  Svennungsen, Thomas Owens ^a   Holen, Øistein Haugsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conditional strategy; Cuckoo; Evolutionary arms race; External cue; Multiple egg ejection; Nest desertion

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; ARMS RACE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; BROOD DESERTION; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIMICRY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; EGG; EVOLUTION; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; EGGS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

AVES;

EID: 77953735781     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00919.x     Document Type: Article

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