Sickness behaviour acting as an evolutionary trap? Male house finches preferentially feed near diseased conspecifics

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 462-465

  Bouwman, Karen M ^a   Hawley, Dana M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Disease avoidance; Foraging behaviour; House finch Carpodacus mexicanus; Mycoplasma gallisepticum; Pathogen transmission

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; BACTERIAL DISEASE; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PASSERINE; WILD POPULATION;

CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRD DISEASE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINCH; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; SEX FACTORS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77957258261     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0020     Document Type: Article

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