Avian vision and the evolution of egg color mimicry in the common cuckoo

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2004-2013

  Stoddard, Mary Caswell ^a   Stevens, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arms race; Bird color space; Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Egg rejection; Tetrachromatic

Indexed keywords

ARMS RACE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; COLOR; EGG REJECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MIMICRY; PARENTAL CARE; VISION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COLOR; COLOR VISION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NESTING; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; EUROPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; SONGBIRDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 79955161192     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01262.x     Document Type: Article

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